I'm finding it harder and harder to relate to my best friend and its got to the point where I try to avoid her. We have nothing in common. She's married and I'm a single parent but she laughs at everything I try to do. She laughed when I told her I'd taken up a training course, she laughed when I told her I wanted to be a social worker and she completely ignored me when I told her I was starting with the open university.
She goes on about silly, trivial stuff all the time. A major incident to her is something like a kid at school skipping a reading level and getting ahead of her DS. She doesn't watch the news so I cant talk to her about current events. When that school shooting happened in america and it was all over the news...she knew nothing about it. She only knows about madeleine because of people talking about it at the school gates.
She goes nuts at her DS for the silliest reasons. Like yesterday she went mad because he'd seen his friend walking to school, said hello and carried on walking (he was walking with my DS at the time) and my friend went ballistic saying he was ignorent and she ordered him to go back and walk with his other friend. She then turned to me and told me about how pig ignorent he was...surely its more ignorent to suddenly stop walking with one kid in favour of walking with one you've just seen?
And lastly, if it doesn't effect her, she doesnt care. For instance my DS was being badly bullied by a boy in their class. Everytime I mentioned this kid my friend agreed that he was a brat and needed sorting out. But then her DS came home and said that this kid had stuck up for him during an argument with some other kids and so now my friend thinks he's lovely and sweet...despite the fact that he's still bullying my DS. Now if I mention the bullying, she completely ignores me.
I'm just bored of the same silly conversations about reading books and playground gossip. I'm sick of being laughed at (she now finds it hilarious that I've taken up karate, she said its embarrasing and that she wants to come and take a photo!)
I do feel guilty though because she is a nice person, we just don't see things the same like we used to.
I don't know if its because I'm doing stuff she wants to do but can't. (like working, going abroad etc).
Has anyone been through this? I suppose its like a breakup.