My friend is always quite critical of me. She can't say anything nice about me, it seems. Everything is, as she puts it, constructive criticism. It's generally unasked-for, and is about everything from the clubs my children do after school, to the clothes that I wear,
By contrast, she always has nice, gushy things to say about mutual friends, and is always talking about how cute their children are, how nice our mutual friends look, how nice their houses are, and all kinds of other things.
We went shopping together yesterday and whenever I looked at any items of clothing she said things like 'Oh no, you couldn't get away with that', or 'Hmmm, that's not very you. Now Sarah (mutual friend) could pull that off, but then she has the looks and height for that kind of thing".
I have also recently lost a couple of stone in weight, and when I reached my target weight and told my friend she laughed loudly and said she thought I was nowhere near my target weight yet!
Each time I've said to her that her comments are rude, or have showed any kind of displeasure at what she has said, she accuses me of being oversensitive and hard work.
Am I being oversensitive? I thought friends were meant to make you feel better about yourself, not worse?!