Friendship woes
Sorry for the silence over the past few days. It's been a busy weekend and... what do you do when you have friends who make what you feel are unreasonable demands on your time? And say things to make you feel guilty if you don't accede?
How about friends who constantly drown you in a litany of complaints, draining all your energy? But you think they may really need someone to talk to, and as a friend you feel you should be there for them??
Then there are friends who will tell you their problems and look bewildered & lost, and you give them advice which they wilfully ignore, then the next time round they come by with the SAME problem, or a bigger version of it (because it blew up after they continued going on their merry way).
(That last happens to me A LOT. It drives me up the wall!)
I don't know what to do. Sometimes it gets to the point that when I see someone's name appear as the sender of a text message, my heart sinks before I even read the SMS!
Miss No-Confrontation-At-Any-Cost, here, doesn't dare to say anything to these friends, lest they get offended and take off in a snit. So I'm caught. Not only that, I have a VERY hard time ever saying "no"...
What to do, what to do??