To be seriously ready to explode?

[soberaf]

My best friend of 7 years is CONSTANTLY interrupting me, I mean every single conversation we have and it is seriously starting to effect my friendship with her. I love her to bits and she is great in all other aspects but I find it so ignorant when she interrupts me. It makes me feel really dismissed and like she's not interested in what I am saying.

It usually goes like this...I will listen to her speak, she asks me a question and then when I start to answer or tell a story she will literally speak over me to her child, when her child is just sitting quietly so not as if he has asked a question, or she will go, "sorry, I just have to put a washing on but come with me and continue" or tonight we were out a walk and right in the middle of a sentence she randomly pointed at a building and was like "is that new?"

No apology, no nothing and it is constant. It makes me lose my train of thought and sometimes I feel I am rushing to get what I want to say in before she cuts me off.

I have mentioned once in the past to her about it and she was really apologetic and did get better for a few months. It's now getting to the point I'm struggling to be around her.

Am I being too sensitive?

Only you can decide if this friendship has enough other positive sides to it to make you want to over look this negative.
Maybe your friend is great at offering last minute child care which you’re stuck. Maybe she cooks a mean chilli. Maybe she’s the best fun on the occasional Friday night out.
All those things might outweigh her habit of talking over you in which case you might decide to keep the friendship.

But if you can’t think of any positive aspects of the friendship, that it’s mainly mediocre apart from this one negative thing, then maybe it’s time to move on.

Your call.

Had a friend like this. Sometimes I’d ignore her interruption and carry on talking. It is hard work though. Sometimes I would completely stop talking and she would realise and then say ‘sorry carry on’. There is a slight ignorance to this type of behaviour. In the end my ex friend was mostly interested in talking about herself, one sided conversation all about her and I slowly removed myself from our friendship.

See if you can think of some subtle ways to let her see that she’s interrupted you, I just used to shut up and she’d realise after a bit I wasn’t talking. Sometimes she’d be on the phone to me and start talking to someone on the street and I’d be kept on hold listening to her catching up with someone else. I started to say I’ll speak to you later.
If you value her friendship stick with it, or maybe have a little time away from her.