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Demanding Friend

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LosDolses · 22/06/2022 15:53

Friends over 35 years,we are both 41. We live in the same area and kids went to the same school for a while. We meet for breakfast every couple of weeks. We don't ring each other for chats or text everyday but still close.

My friend is divorced and has three children. She lives in her mother's house with her mother and step dad. Her mother has always been very hands on and has probably done too much for my friend.

Anyway because my friend is single she is always looking for somebody to do something with,mainly pubs and clubs. I am not interested. I'm happily married with 3 children and prefer to spend my time with DH and DC.

She asked me out a few months ago to a bar in town and I told her my days of going clubbing and drinking in town were over and that the weekends were my time with DH and for the kids hobbies.

She text me today and said we should arrange a few drinks and bring the kids. This means coming to my house with her kids for a few drinks. My kids don't particularly like her kids and I find them quite obnoxious if I'm being honest. She's already telling me when we could arrange it.

I just find her so demanding. I'm not single,I don't want to go clubbing,I don't want her kids in my house.

OP posts:
FreyaStorm · 16/07/2022 14:52

People on this thread are crazy. How you find time to meet up with her 3 times a week is mind boggling when you work FT, have a household and kids to manage. You’re a lot more generous with your time than I’d be.

I had a childhood friend for a similar length of time to you and I hung in there because of the shared memories and sentimentality, but I eventually reached my breaking point and let the friendship go. We are just too different and I couldn’t stand by and witness the way her DC was being raised and keep saying nothing. If I said something there would have been a blow up and that would end the friendship anyway, so best to let it fade I think.

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