I've been friends with this person for about 10 years. She is very much a taker rather than a giver but as she was good fun and great company it's always been overlooked by all of us (in our group of friends) in a "you know what she's like" kind of way.
Over the last couple of years it seems her life has not gone the way she ideally wanted it to. Now as much as I usually believe the "you made your bed, now lie in it" view I know it's not always black and white and have tried to be a good friend to her and support and help her, despite it being thrown back in my face frequently. Before anyone says it I'm not a smug type, I have been a struggling single parent trying to study, just as she is now, but she forgets this.
She has ranted in the past about how can I possibly know how she feels as my life is perfect in every way. Now I know I'm happy with my life, but I've worked bloody hard (and still am doing!) for my family and myself, nothing has been handed to me on a plate. My life is not perfect and I've had my fair share of shite to sift through, but she is never arsed about how I am, just about her latest problem. The stuff she moans about in her life has come about through decisions that she made, but somehow she's angry with me about it all.
I don't know what she wants from me, it feels like she wants me to be miserable too. I've really tried to be supportive, but she started ranting at me on the phone lately and I felt it was completely out of order and I ended up in tears (NOT like me at all) on a frigging busy commuter train
I decided, in simple terms, that she could f* right off.
But now the guilt is drip drip dripping back in and I'm feeling like I should call her and have a chat over coffee. But I know how it will go:
she moans
I offer support or help or just a shoulder
she accepts
she is happy for a while and we have a laugh
she gets pissed off with her life and takes it out on me
I feel like shit
we don't speak for a while
I feel bad and call her........
on a farking loop
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MadreInglese · 26/01/2009 14:42
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