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My best friend is really starting to annoy me, I really don’t want to resent her, help

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libradancerxx · 09/09/2022 15:53

I saw a similar thread on here , I’m significantly younger than that posted tho. I’m 27.
with her for about 2 years before.

My best friend is really starting to annoy me. I’ve known her for ten years.
Her way of relating to life is very different from mine but lately she has changed because she started taking Prozac and idk what happened. She’s become a lot more anxious than usual, a lot more clingy; and I don’t like this new version of her.

She’s always been
the calmer one. I’ve always been the anxiety ridden one.

And then what really makes me mad is how uppity she acts sometimes.

She lives at home, I do too. Her parents are super rich, I’m middle class. She has everything paid for basically and just works cuz she wants pocket money. I need to actually work to pay off my own bills because were not rich and my mom is a single mom (my dad died). It’s hard not to compare our lives . I know I shouldn’t. But she has just had it way easier in life and sometimes it really gets to me.

She is obsessed with getting married. I’ve had a few relationships that ended badly, she hasn’t had any relationships and she wants one very badly. It gives me the ick so bad. I don’t think girls should be despo for a man ever, in her life. I get that you wanna get married I do too, but she really goes on rants and it depresses me. I don’t like comparing my life to others but she makes it hard not to. I stopped going on Instagram for this reason and I told her to stay away from IG if she doesn’t wanna feel like this but she doesn’t listen.

I guess I’m a lot more harder than her because life has given me the short end of the stick compared to her life. So whenevr she complains about something money related or anything really I just roll my eyes in my head so hard.

For example her dad paid her way through college with no loans. I had to take out student loans and I had pell grant for one year. I got the student loan forgiveness from Biden and it feels like she got jealous of that (?)

We were both employed at one company for a while. They laid
me off and kept her on, she got a promotion.

She’s a really hard worker so I give her that.

But she has REALLY CHANGED. After taking Prozac. She is this bubbly person who has anxiety now. I’m not used to it, she’s never been like that. She over thinks everything now.

We’ve been texting everyday this week and today she asks me why I’m being so quiet ? Dude I have a job and we’ve texted every day multiple times a day.

We’re meeting up tomorrow and she has already asked if we can get brunch in the next couple of weeks!!!

I’m lowkey hating this. I don’t like this.
I’m 27F she’s 27F.
I know I shouldn’t compare our lives because I have things in my life she doesn’t have. But it’s so hard not to be bitter. Some people are truly lucky people.

OP posts:
MiseryWIthAStent · 09/09/2022 17:20

Alright when you're anxious but not her? Alright then

Testina · 09/09/2022 17:23

Ooooh, she’s “despo” to steal your anxiety thunder, huh?
Leave her alone.

Imissmoominmama · 09/09/2022 17:24

She’s probably better off without you hun.

Kellie45 · 09/09/2022 17:35

Drama queens! We have to count our blessings for what we have. Doctors are too ready to give drugs.

Rainbowdrops2021 · 09/09/2022 17:53

Have teenagers recently found MN and decided to post fake stories out of boredom? I refuse to believe a 27 year old would ever write or behave like this.

OldSkoool · 09/09/2022 17:54

Grow the fuck up and concentrate on your own life. You sound extremely jealous.

Magnanimouse · 09/09/2022 18:24

Look backwards to how it used to be.

  1. Maybe you'll realise that you were never close friends, just people who hung out together because no one else was around.
  2. Maybe you'll realise how much you've both grown apart over time.
  3. Maybe you'll realise your friendship is evolving into something which - as you get older - you'll always be there for her but maybe not seeing her quite as frequently.
  4. Maybe you'll realise how strong your friendship once was and how much she needs you now, that it's about the Prozac (ie illness) and how cruel it would be to dump her, that she needs your support to get back to the way she was.
  5. Maybe you'll realise that you're secretly obsessed with her financial arrangements and that she's better off without you (sorry - I'm sure that's not true, but that is how your post is coming across).
UrghBlahBlahBleugh · 09/09/2022 18:31

Jesus Christ, grow up OP. You sound FAR younger than 27.

The 'woe is me' act because your friend is upper class and you're middle class...Poor old you, what he'll it must be to just be middle class eh?! All those using food banks, struggling on universal credit cock ups and wondering how they'll stay warm this winter...they just don't know they're born, do they?!

You sound like the annoying friend. She should bin you off. Annoying because she's on meds for anxiety?! You're a shit friend OP. A very shit selfish immature excuse for a friend.

GucciPearls · 09/09/2022 18:32

You’re a horrible friend. I hope she finds this post and fucks you off.

you sound jealous and immature.

ClocksGoingBackwards · 09/09/2022 18:34

You are not very good at knowing how to be a friend it seems.

HangOnToYourself · 09/09/2022 18:34

You just sound awful

HangOnToYourself · 09/09/2022 18:36

Also why did you feel the need to justify your mum being a single mum because your dad died? Do you think only the lower "class" separate by choice when they have kids?

GuerlainHo · 09/09/2022 18:38

Biden?

Are you American OP?

GuerlainHo · 09/09/2022 18:39

As much as she sounds clingy, You sound jealous to some extent as you feel she has everything handed to her and you have to work for it.

Tierne · 09/09/2022 18:40

Another one here who is surprised to see you are both 27. Is this what living at home does to people?

Trying2310 · 09/09/2022 18:50

You sound about 13. Time to grow up!

Nospringchix · 09/09/2022 18:50

Kindofcrunchy · 09/09/2022 16:35

If she has very recently started prozac - within 6 weeks - the medication can make you very anxious before it kicks in and works its magic. Give her a chance?

Just what I was thinking too. The first few weeks of antidepressants are awful. Terrible anxiety, possible suicidal thoughts, trouble sleeping.

Please support your friend, OP, she could be going through absolute hell.

LicoricePizza · 09/09/2022 18:58

Summerslam · 09/09/2022 16:35

You don't sound like a very supportive friend. People aren't given Prozac because they like the taste.

Well said

Wheresmywoolyjumpers · 09/09/2022 19:23

It sounds like now she is going through a harder time, you don't like it. It is easy to get to the stage where anything someone does annoys you and it sounds like you are there now. This does sound like a post from a much younger person, I think you have some work to do on letting things go and not holding her circumstances against her.

Bubblebubblebah · 09/09/2022 19:36

What's up with the wind ups last few days

Babyincoming22 · 09/09/2022 19:42

You can have anxiety but she can't? Wow.

FantasylandEnthusiast · 09/09/2022 19:42

Are you 13??

Boreded · 09/09/2022 20:08

Ffs - kids/trolls and their stories. Please take yourself to quora where you belong

AnotherAnxiousMess · 09/09/2022 20:17

Agree with other saying you sound a lot younger than 27... If you are, you really need to grow up. You obviously don't like or care about her, so don't be friends with her anymore. She'll be better off for it.

CatsAreCrackers · 09/09/2022 20:36

So when you were the anxious one, you were happy to be her friend and lean on her. Now she has a problem, you don't like it and she's a nuisance. You are selfish, jealous and a truly awful "friend".