how Do you cope with this kind of friendship? We’ve known each other since uni days but I’m finding her increasingly insufferable with her need to one up me on everything!
when DH and I moved to a nicer area than where we used to live, she constantly quizzed me on the cost of the house, what renovations we were doing, how we were going to cope financially. She directly told me that she was surprised we could afford where we moved! Since then she’s done her own renovations to her home which oddly look similar to our own.
she also used to scold and look down on my own parenting skills and my school mum social circles. She thought my mum friends were either bitchy or chavvy when I used to tell her about situations on the school playground. I always had a sense of balance with my friendships.
Since her DD has recently joined reception, all the things she used to sneer at me doing she’s now copied. She enjoys boasting that she’s too busy to see me and our other girlfriend due to ‘being forced to go to yet another trampoline party’.
of course, these friends are all solicitors, doctors or work in the media and again I’ve noticed now she is in a new clique of her own school mums, she doesn’t involve me, despite me inviting her on my own nights out with my mum friends.
im going through a really tough time in my marriage, not that she knows about. If she did I'm sure I’d get patronised.
not sure why I’m still friends with her. I think I wanted to vent on here as I feel used and cast aside. Does anyone have a similar experience? How did you cope with this kind of friendship? Why does she do this? It really grates my gears when she drops in a brag about not being to see me due to DD latest attendance at a pool party! Please help!