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to be upset with friend

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narkedwithanarc · 04/06/2018 12:19

Sorry it's a long one

I've posted recently about my concerns about a friends recent behaviour, but it's part of a bigger thing that has regularly seen me hurt. My friend seems to have a thing for one-upping me, to the point she is utterly and completely insensitive.

I had a stillborn baby boy at full term just 9 months ago. Due to that and other circumstances, I lost the weight very fast. She made comments like 'this bitch just loses weight without doing anything' (those were her exact words)

Recently, I started dating again. Obviously due to circumstances, I'm taking things very slowly. It's only been 2 months so far.

My friend broke up with her ex in that time and immediately rebounded to a guy who has been expressly interested in her for a while. She had previously said she was absolutely not interested in him, she also said this in front of new P so didn't imagine it!

They've been together less than 1 month and we met up on Friday and she tells me that; they've already said they love each other, named their children, will definitely get married and both would be happy if she was pregnant now. She knows I've been struggling recently with pregnancies and babies and how desperately I wish I could be pregnant now (but naturally that's way in the future yet).

She also remarked that me and new P are going 'sooo slow' because we've not declared our love for each other. And apparently her and her new bf have sex 8 times per day Hmm she's also made comments about how they'll be earning 50k+ together etc etc which is of course, far above the combined salaries of myself and new P.

She claims I am one of few friends she cares about, but she obviously has no regard for my feelings whatsoever.

It's the pregnancy part that's really hurt me, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it all weekend and it's had me break down in tears. I couldn't really give two shits if she ends up earning more than I do.

AIBU to be upset with her behaviour? Not sure if I'm being oversensitive because of the subject.

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narkedwithanarc · 04/06/2018 18:23

I spoke to DM today after work and she thinks this has been a long term thing. She said 'friend' was unhealthily obsessed with me when we were kids and that it's transformed into obsessive one upping in adulthood.

We didn't actually speak for years during high school, something 'friend' attributes to a comment she made saying that my DF doesn't like me. In reality it's because I felt smothered, she would wait outside our door for me every morning and look through our living room window to see if I was there. I don't recall her comment at all, but I'd mostly forgotten about how strange she used to be.

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narkedwithanarc · 04/06/2018 18:26

@cjt119 thank you Smile Flowers yeah, I think she must be very insecure.

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Blondie789 · 04/06/2018 18:28

Lol sex 8 times a day what a load of BOLLOCKS who would even want sex that much?!

barleyfive · 04/06/2018 18:28

Ew, friends should be your biggest supporters and cheerleaders; honest if needed, yes, but not this one-upping and everything. You deserve more, distance yourself and enjoy your relationship and catch up with real friends.

narkedwithanarc · 04/06/2018 18:29

@blondie789 apparently it makes her bleed too, it sounds sooo amazing Hmm

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Blondie789 · 04/06/2018 18:30

Who said romance was dead hey! 😂

narkedwithanarc · 04/06/2018 18:31

@barleyfive thank you Smile I don't really have any real friends where I live but I'm due to visit some friends down south next weekend actually, so that will be nice! New P has reassured me that whatever nonsense she spouts, they'll still not have what we have, which was very sweet.

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Bellabutterfly2016 · 04/06/2018 18:35

Get rid of her, she's no friend simple as that!

PleasingMe · 04/06/2018 18:36

She sounds bitchy. I'd let her go slowly but surely. You deserve much more. Flowers

Monny1 · 04/06/2018 18:50

You are better off, without her. She is no friend. You sound like a lovely person.

Ansumpasty · 04/06/2018 19:02

Sorry for your loss Flowers

Life is far too short to have a ‘friend’ in it who makes you feel anything but happy and good about yourself.

She is making you feel upset. Cut ties with her and look after yourself. You wouldn’t keep doing something if it made you feel ill and upset, would you?

narkedwithanarc · 05/06/2018 14:35

I think I’m gonna keep my distance for now and then slowly fade out. I’m not interested in any drama.

I probably need to stay away for now as her pregnancy comments had me in tears in the toilets at work yesterday. I’m not having her undermine the progress I’ve made with my grief and make my life more difficult just for a bloody ego boost!

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