Furious with a friend - at the end of my tether, and do not know what to do
Question Posted Sunday February 13 2011, 12:21 pm
A lot of things have been building up to my being really angry at this one friend, only I don't feel that I can do anything about it: At school there are about 5 of us friends and we're all really close, so if I decide to de-friend this one person I'm afraid its going to create a rift between the five of us. I really don't want to come across childish either but I just feel so infuriated by her.
She's 18, and I am also, and over the past 5 months things just keep happening to make me angry with her, like when we were painting at her house she put paint on my trousers and when I sat down I accidently sat on her cardigan and got paint on it. I apologised and said I would help her pay towards a new one, as it was just a polite thing to say and I was sure the paint would come out. The next day she texts me asking for £20 to buy a new one, that putting it in the wash has ruined it and that I owe her a new one. I was shocked, if I had put paint on my friends bum and she had then sat on my cardigan I would blame myself, and know that it was an accident anyway, I would not demand the money for it. I suggested she let me try and get the paint out but she said her mum had already tried and in doing so had made holes in the cardi, so I had to give her money.
Another thing is that I went on holiday with her (before all this happened) and made a ton of video's to make sure we had memories when we got home. Its been 6 months and I have been asking, but I have still seen hide nor hair of these videos. Memories are very important to me, and being deprived of them because of her laziness just infuriates me.
I really do not know what to do, I am fast becoming exhausted and find myself wanting to moan about her to everyone and I really hate it.
She is very capricious, selfish, and childish, just general personality wise.
Any advice about how to handle the situation would really be appreciated.
Additional info, added Sunday February 13 2011, 12:41 pm: Another point against her: I was walking to school a week or so ago, and a drunken man was following me and shouting absurdities, threatening me - yes it was aimed at me - and I was terrified, so I called her -even though he shouted that if I dialled a number he would 'come and hit me' - and asked her if she could please come and pick me up, as she drives and is only up the road, but her answer was that she couldn't because she wanted to walk to school that day. She knew why I wanted picking up, and she knew that I was scared. Surely a friend would have saved me :/. Want to answer more questions in the Relationships category? Maybe give some free advice about: Friendship? Matt answered Monday February 14 2011, 2:52 am: I think you're overreacting. [ Matt's advice column | Ask Matt A Question ]
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