I have this friend who I have been close with for years. We still try to keep in touch now but everything suddenly starts to feel like a competition. I first noticed it when I first had this major milestone (we were supposed to achieve this together) but for some reason, I managed to have done it first. She then didn’t speak to me until months later. Now, she has achieved the same and so we’ve been speaking again. At some point, her life has turned for the better, and even doing much better than me when it comes to being financially stable. We’d be talking on the phone about it and I would not ever forget the day when she asked about how much I was getting paid for my job and sort of belittled it. And kept ranting on how much she earns and that she’s really glad about it. I don’t know I just hate the fact that she’s constantly talking about every small detail of how great her life is when it comes to this one aspect and I’m not even interested. It’s only out of politeness I let her carry on. She had a problem about this one particular thing which wasn’t really a problem because she had a lot of people there for her and if that happened to me, I might have been at a loss. It’s like she just wants to show she has it all, when I clearly know she resents me every time I achieve something.