Friend never replies to texts if I texts her....

[LordSugar]

....but expects replies when she texts me.

It's got to the stage where I don't bother texting her anymore, as she never replies. Then when she wants to do something or wants to tell me something she texts and if I don't reply instantly she gets quite uppity and I get several stroppy "Did you get my last text??" type messages.

I know it's only a small thing but it's really bugging me and actually making me not to want to bother with her again as she doesn't seem to respect me much.

So tell her how you feel.

I don't think she'd take it very well. Also what do I do? Arrange a meet up to tell her how I feel?

So how she feels is more important than how you feel? You are so concerned with protecting her feelings but she's not showing that she gives a shit about yours, is she? So what will you lose?

You should just speak to her about it if it's bothering you.

Mirroring her frustrating behavior will just become exhausting.

I don't think it needs to be a really formal, serious chat.

Just say to her the next time you see her, don't make a big deal out of it.

Waste of energy.

Drop her

It's not so much that I'm concerned with protecting her feelings. It's more that she will go off like a bottle of pop, and flounce off and never speak to me again and moan about me to mutual friends and cause a huge issue.

You could text back and say if its urgent and you need a reply straight away please call me ( as I am not 12 and do not sit on by phone waiting for you)

I'd still tell her.

Moaning about you can't hurt you in any way. I am sure that she is the same with everyone and they'd probably all think well, it's about time SOMEONE said something!

I wouldn't bother to tell her face to face.

I have a friend who does this - I used to text pretty often, with helpful things, questions, ideas, anything really like you normally do with a friend.

She just used to ignore them most of the time. recently she has started to text and call quite a lot and I've been ignoring as I know she'll want a favour and I have a new baby. She seems to have got the message, just, when I saw her in person (was trying to avoid) and she asked me if we could get together and I said, no, I am far, far too busy.

I made a big thing of saying how sorry I was and how it didn't mean I don't like her any more, till she was practically running away, saying 'it's fine, no, really, no pressure'.

Have not heard from her since. Result

Just to say I'm crap at texts but much better in person. Some people just don't get on with their phones - I love being online but phones not so much.

But if she's expecting immediate texts back, then that's rude. So I'd bring it up.