What do you consider as a "good" friend?

[Darkbloom]

I've recently became friends with a woman. I'm heavily pregnant and she isn't. I got on well with her at first and now she's starting to become really needy/possessive.

Example: as I'm heavily pregnant, I'm getting worn out and can't do much - she's pestering me to do exercise classes with her because she doesn't want to go on her own, I've tried to put it in a nice way that I'm running out of energy and I'm finding it harder to join her in these classes and she is just not taking no as an answer and being demanding in her approach.

I don't like confrontation and I have only started to become friends with this woman but I feel like I am at my wits end with this friendship already.

Well, she’s not being a good friend to you at all!

Just be firm and clear: please don’t ask me to join you for any classes of any kind for the foreseeable future! If she keeps pushing stop answering her texts.

You have every right to phase her out.

This is far too new to be anything like a ‘good friendship’ — you’re acquaintances with different ideas about how things should proceed, and she’s clearly someone who can’t go other loo alone. Fortunately, you’ll soon have a baby as a readymade excuse if you really can’t just say no!

Sorry, that won't work for me.
Such a great phrase .

I am 31 weeks pregnant and I h ink if any of my friends asked me to do a ‘normal’ ie non pregnancy class with them I would just laugh at them

A simple "Ha, ha, ha.... no chance. Thanks for thinking of me, but no way am I up for that right now. You'll have to brave it on your own."

A good friend is someone who knows everything about me. I can talk about anything, warts and all.

This woman sounds like a pushy annoying acquaintance

She's either being pushy or you're not being clear enough. Just say no thanks.

Exactly the opposite of your 'friend'.