Exhausting friend

[Anon585]

So my friend never gets the vibes and has no social awareness. I've been going through something really hard (possible homelessness) and her response was to send me 50 pics of her baby's OOTD and hound me every 5 mins about the details of an up and coming meeting for coffee. I've stopped letting her come over as she'll sit here for hours with no consideration for my families routines (my husband used to offer her a ride home to get rid of her as he wanted to relax after work). When she's here she'll go on about her baby like their the first baby in history to exist. It's tiresome and exhausting being around her but she has no other friends or family and we used to genuinely get on and have a laugh before.

Communicate politely to her the aspects of her behaviour you’re finding difficult, and express to her that you’d like things between you to be more like the way they were before, and that you really valued the friendship the way it was then?

Not knowing either of you it’s difficult to say which of you is BU, but honestly a new mum being obsessed with her baby doesn’t sound to me like the worst of crimes.

I’m really sorry you have been going through a hard time.

One of my friends had a friend like this, she'd come over right after work in the early evening when my friend was trying to get a meal on the table, get the children ready for bed, etc. She couldn't seem to take a hint.

In the end my friend started backing away and when she declined a birthday party invitation for this person's child, she was bombarded with texts as to why they weren't coming. She had to block her.

Tell her OP. Either she's ND and doesn't read the room well or she's just inconsiderate; either way she needs to be told.