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To disagree that I am hard work and oversensitive

47 replies

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 16:15

When in actual fact it's that the particular friend that said I was these things speaks to me like shit at times and I am not prepared to tolerate it.

Today she has spoken to me like dirt as I had arranged to go to hers for a coffee; she wanted me to go at 11am but I have been busy today and said that I couldn't go any earlier than 3pm so if that was too late for her we could always rearrange for another day. She said fine. Then at 2.30 she phoned me and said very snappily 'WHERE are you? Are you coming? I'm waiting for YOU'. I said that we had agreed 3pm and asked if she was ok as she seemed very cross. She said she wasn't cross but that we had agreed I would go round and she would prefer me to go round earlier rather than later as she wants to go out at 5pm. I said that we'd best leave it today as she was clearly in a bad mood. She said I am oversensitive and hard work. I said I disagreed and that I thought she was rude, and that we'd better end the conversation here.

She truly thinks the world revolves around her. I am fed up with her snapping at me or speaking to me like dirt when she feels like it. We had a day out together, with our DCs a few months ago and she was in a mood the whole day, insisting that we only did as she wanted, and saying things to me like 'Come on, walk faster than that', and 'Hold that!!' whilst thrusting her bag into my arms in shops. It was also raining that day, she didn't have a brolly but I did, and every time we left a shop or another building she would say 'Come on, hurry up and put your brolly up, up not getting MY hair wet' and kept expecting me to hold the brolly. She also snapped repeatedly at my DCs that day and kept telling them off even though they hadn't done anything wrong. I pulled her up on it that day too, and she said I was oversensitive and hard work.

To sum it up, each time she speaks to me like dirt, if I pull her up on it she says it's me being oversensitive. I know it's not. I don't have this problem with other friends.

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BadEducation · 24/08/2012 16:36

Yes I was thinking that, Jamie

Another thing she does, is make very personal comments, such as 'you've put a lot of weight on haven't you' and if I say 'Ouch that was a bit personal' she'll say I'm being oversensitive. Her latest thing is to critisise my 13 year old DD's teeth as they are a bit crooked (she is seeing an orthodonsist), but she does it in front of DD, and when I say not to do that, she says I'm oversensitive and that she is only offering constructive criticism

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diddl · 24/08/2012 16:38

Who usually does the arranging?-if it´s you-no problems-just stop!

How bothered is she about seeing you really if she makes an arrangement for 3 when she is going out at 5?

Is it at all possible that she thinks you weren´t bothered about seeing her as you changed the time from 11 to 3?

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 16:40

I didn't change the time diddl; she said did I want to go round for coffee today at 11. I said yes but I wouldn't make it for 11 as we were busy, and that 3 was the earliest I could do. She said yes, 3 is fine

She makes the majority of the arrangements I'd say. She is quite a control freak and can only fit people in when she can fit them in. If I ever suggest a time or day for a meet up it's no good as she'll be busy. It has to suit her

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JamieandTheOlympicTorch · 24/08/2012 16:41

She's taken bluntness to the extreme of bitchyness. Don't spend time with someone who makes you feel bad, or question yourself

NovackNGood · 24/08/2012 16:42

As usual without anyone knowing the friend she has already been diagnosed as a bully, controlling, possibly with marriage problems. etc. etc.

You all don't need to sate the so called friend. You could just say you don't sound compatible so move on and spend time with other friends. No ned to slate the other party whom none of you have even met. Slagging the friend off as sounding like a bully, controlling etc when you have never met her just makes you come across as a bit of a bully, controlling person yourelves.

And I would have though that 2 hours for a coffee is more than enough time in the afternoon.

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 16:44

Jamie, yes sometimes I feel she says things in a bitchy way rather than just a blunt way. I don't mind bluntness or honesty but not when it gets overly personal or plain rude iykwim

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JamieandTheOlympicTorch · 24/08/2012 16:47

Eh? I don't behave like this and therefore I'm not a bully. Ridiculous thing to say Novack

JamieandTheOlympicTorch · 24/08/2012 16:49

Ooops sorry. I totally disagree with your assessment of my character Novack

Viviennemary · 24/08/2012 16:52

She's the one who sounds extremely hard work. Be a bit busy for a couple of weeks till things have calmed down and then see how things are. I don't like the idea of telling her exactly what you think of her in a letter. Nobody wants to hear that. Even if it's all true!

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 16:57

Oh no, definitely couldn't bring myself to do the letter thing, Vivienne. Nooooo way :)

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diddl · 24/08/2012 16:59

Oh, sorry-thought that you´d arranged for 11 & then changed it near the time when you realised that you couldn´t make it.

Either way, she sounds quite aggressive & when you reminded her, she could have apologised!

Or just said that she was phoning in the hope that you could get to her before 3.

Anyway, she´s an adult & sometimes life gets in the way & we can´t always do what we want.

if it was easy to make another arrangement & not the only chance you´d have to get together for months, I can´t understand her reaction tbh.

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 17:01

She's just sent me a PM on Facebook saying sorry she didn't mean to be snappy.

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diddl · 24/08/2012 17:04

Ooh-is she an MNer?

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 17:05

Hopefully Grin

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Bobyan · 24/08/2012 17:14

Sorry OP but you sound like a doormat - it would be a cold day in hell before I socialised with anyone undermining my DC's confidence like she did...

NameChangeGalore · 24/08/2012 17:34

Just in my defense, I never slated this so called friend. I actually asked if there may be any reason behind her behaving like that, and the OP has stated that she may have an alcohol problem. So that explains alot about her behaviour.

BadEducation · 24/08/2012 17:37

And the whole alcohol/unhappiness thing is kind of why I've been more tolerant of her than I perhaps would be otherwise. I probably am a bit of a doormat at times, but I do try to see the best in people

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peeriebear · 24/08/2012 17:42

Friends are supposed to make you feel better- if she makes you feel worse every time you spend time with her it ain't right! Run for the hills.

DublinMammy · 24/08/2012 17:46

She sounds like a nasty pain in the arse and not someone I would want to spend time with. It is possible to ditch people like this without it being a big show-down, be vague/busy/simply "forget" to get back to her. She'll get the message and you won't have to see her and endure this crap.

Bobyan · 24/08/2012 17:47

Or just tell her to fuck off Grin

RobotLover68 · 24/08/2012 18:30

I used to be friends with a girl whose kids used to bully my kids when we went round there

My kids would complain and this girl would tell them to stop whining!

I let the friendship drift, I don't miss her....

OnlyNiceSwearing · 24/08/2012 20:04

Ditch the bitch life is too short!

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