So I was hoping for a bit of advice on how to scale back a friendship. I'm splitting with my husband and late last year met a woman through a mutual group we're both involved in, who was also splitting with hers. She latched onto me and initially I thought she was fun, although it did ring some alarm bells that she said she'd 'lost touch' with all her friends and now I was her best friend(!).
Anyway, a few months down the line and I am struggling. She's narcissistic, needy, selfish, and steamrollers over everyone to get her own way. She's really only interested in me for someone to go out drinking with - which I don't even want to do, not with her anyway as she gets absolutely sh*tfaced and then I end up babysitting her - and although we're both getting divorced, expects me to support her through hers (and the idiotic decisions she keeps making about men) while not even asking me about mine. I have a lot of challenges in my life at the moment which she couldn't care less about.
I know this is mumsnet so you're probably all going to tell me to tell her just to eff off, but I can't, due to the fact we're both involved with this local group and therefore have to connect professionally on a regular basis. I need to turn this back into a working relationship rather than being friends, essentially.