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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

to ask you all whether i should ditch this "friend" ?

40 replies

MoomieAndFreddie · 11/12/2012 15:35

she makes me feel shit about myself. since I have known her she has made comments about why don't I get a job (when I was a SAHM) when I started working part time she was all like why don't I work more hours? basically making me feel like some lazy layabout. another of our friends is a single mum on benefits and she was constantly making digs to and about her, along the same lines. This friend does not have DC. She is also obsessed with buying a house, her and her DH have been saving for a year for a deposit and are now in the position to buy so she is boasting telling everyone who will listen about this, and constantly saying to me, oh why dont YOU buy, Moomie, despite knowing FULL WELL we are not able to. And we are in housing association so frankly we are happy where we are. (she judges us for this as well)

she also recently insulted some of my other friends (with DC) by saying she didn't want to breastfeed if she had DCs as its "disgusting" Hmm and she was worried she would get a bucket fanny if she gave birth Hmm . She is also very bossy and likes to "organise" people for boring girls nights out. Also, if she ever meets any of my other friends, she tries to "poach" them by adding them on FB and then trying to invite them along to above shit nights out. And to top it off she is very mean and is the type when you go out for dinner she will calculate her share to the Very Last Penny. And NEVER leaves a tip.

Anyway last night was the last straw. she phoned for a chat and kept going on and on about going to view houses to buy. And she just had to get in a little dig about where I live. she said, Its such a shaaaaame....house prices are really cheap in but i Wouldn't Live There. She might as well have just come out and said - your area sucks. Even if she thinks it, IMO its rude and unacceptable to say it out loud. And it has made me realise I just don;t want her in my life anymore.

How can I ditch her?

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YourHandInMyHand · 11/12/2012 15:38
Shock

How have you not punched dumped her already!? Join forces with your nice single mum friend and stop bothering with her.

Do you have the balls to tell her how rude, judgy and arrogant she is? I'm quite outspoken and so could easily do so but I understand not everyone is so forward.

SDeuchars · 11/12/2012 15:40

YABU to ask.

How to do it: hide her posts on FB; be busy for every night out she organises; never have time to talk on the phone.

DogEgg · 11/12/2012 15:42

Get a Tshirt printed up with "FUCK OFF OUT OF MY LIFE YOU RUDE COW" written on it and wear it the next time you see her.

Or just stay friends with her and have her drag you down for the next many years.

AMumInScotland · 11/12/2012 16:04

Erm, and you have to ask why exactly?

She isn't a friend, she is a life-sucking tick who needs to be ditched asap.

autumnlights12 · 11/12/2012 16:09

google 'frenemy' op; that's what your friend is.

SantaFlashesHisBoobsALot · 11/12/2012 16:15

Jesus who needs enemies when you have friends like that, huh?

I'd tell her straight, actually. Either by phone call, or email. Tell her you've had enough of her rudeness, and you'd be much happier without her in your life.

MoomieAndFreddie · 11/12/2012 17:09

wow just googled frenemy

that is her, to a tee.

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Guiltypleasures001 · 11/12/2012 17:46

or get her to come on MN and start a benefits, race,council house vs mortgaged thread and we will tell her for you !

MrsMangelfanciedPaulRobinson · 11/12/2012 17:53

Oh my god, it sounds like someone I know too! I've managed to phase my person like this out of my social life now, although it took some doing as she's irritatingly thick skinned. I too kept getting invited to random shit nights out. She would then give me a hard time if I couldn't or rather didn't want to go.

SantaWearsGreen · 11/12/2012 17:59

Why do you need to ask? She sounds bitter and jealous.

VikingLady · 11/12/2012 18:34

In what way is she a friend?! Tbh I thought LTB when i read the very first sentence.

twinklesparkles · 11/12/2012 18:38

Get rid of her

She doesn't sound like a friend ... Just a massive bitch

MoomieAndFreddie · 12/12/2012 09:04

i initially met her through another mate (the single mum on benefits mate in my OP, strangely)

she did the same with me as she does with people, ie, kind of "poached" me, and started inviting me to stuff etc and at first i was flattered and she seemed nice. in fact, i used to feel sorry for her because she appeared like she hadn't got many friends, well now i can see why so at first i used to make the effort with her, even though i noticed this bitchiness after a while. plus i am not exactly brimming with friends myself, so i thought i would kind of try and put up with her and see if things improved. Blush

but having seen it all written down in my OP i can't believe i gritted my teeth and stayed mates with her for so long

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Anniegetyourgun · 12/12/2012 09:49

Thank heavens she doesn't intend to breed. I propose from now on forever she is referred to as Bucket Fanny.

upstart68 · 12/12/2012 10:28

God she sounds suspiciously like someone I used to know.

Except that she would poach the friends then slag me off to them.

Always going on about how people are always ditching her - big sob story. Soon found out why. Very much like the Jellyfish character in Bridget Jones.

I had a big argument with mine and we no longer socialise. No I couldn't believe I put up with for so long either. All I can think is that I was in a sleep deprived fog at the time.

BridgetBidet · 12/12/2012 11:01

What a cow, dump her.

I knew someone very like that. And when she got round to having kids turned out to be infertile, which was very sad for her but was tinged with a sense of irony as she had spent so long boasting about the things she had that her friends with children didn't have.

MoomieAndFreddie · 12/12/2012 14:47

oh yeah upstart she is deffo like that bridget jones jellyfish woman

she can be chatting to you really nicely then just say a random horrible thing thats so subtle you are not sure if you have imagined it or not Confused until you have time to think about it later on

and she does want kids, well one kid. she has decided she and her DH are going to try once they are moved in to their precious new mortgaged house and she will fall pregnant immediately. she "will only have one DC as its selfish to have more than one dc apparently as you can't give them enough. but of course i will have a caeserean, not breastfeed, and be back in the gym 2 weeks later, and at work - full time - a month later." and this is exactly what she has said.

horrid. why are people like this? why not just be Nice?

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CuriousMama · 12/12/2012 14:53

Oh I so want to have an update a few months after the birth of her pfb Xmas Grin

Although hopefully you won't have anything to do with her by then and will just hear second hand, right?? Xmas Wink

LessMissAbs · 12/12/2012 14:53

YANBU in that you're very different. She is "moving on" with her life, achieving things. She is talking about what is current in her life, and she probably feels that your life is different to hers.

YABU in that plenty of women buy houses, don't have or want children or to breastfeed, worry about what pregnancy will do to their bodies, work full-time and talk to their friends about it.

I don't think the latter is "horrid" - just different. Plenty of women would be horrified by being a SAHM. Other people exist. No-one is making you be friends with her, but personally I don't want to atrophy in life (shrivel inside myself) but to grow, and to have friends from a variety of backgrounds and interests. A childish woman buying a house is hardly pushing the boundaries of alternative...

pigletmania · 12/12/2012 14:58

Dump her she sounds god awful

Furoshika · 12/12/2012 15:00

I believe the usual advice on here is to simply rise above and ignore her.
Quite right too.

specialsubject · 12/12/2012 15:08

why are you 'friends' with some with the mental development of a stroppy teenage school bully? And the tedious conversation of one?

pictish · 12/12/2012 15:18

She sounds thick. Really thick and stupid.
I don't know how you can be arsed with her.

FatherHankTree · 12/12/2012 16:52

'she can be chatting to you really nicely then just say a random horrible thing thats so subtle you are not sure if you have imagined it or not until you have time to think about it later on'

I used to know one of those types as well, Moomie and totally get what you've written. Distance, distance and more distance is the way to go.

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