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She’s spending New Year’s with her boyfriend instead of her controlling, long-term friend, so her friend started guilt-tripping her

Choose real friends, not emotional parasites.
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Woman Called Her Best Friend Bossy And Controlling During A Trip With Other Friends, So Their Friendship Reached Its Breaking Point

Some people have a tendency to want to control the people around them. If a friend was being really bossy, would you still want to be friends with them? This woman has a best friend who showed her ...
MLive

Why Tho? My friend of 20 years chose his controlling girlfriend over our friendship

As we approach the end of the year, I am sharing some of my most popular columns of 2025. This one originally appeared on Tuesday, July 29. I have a longtime friend whom I met in my 20s when we worked ...
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Asking Eric: How to politely decline controlling requests from friends

Dear Eric: Friends of ours, who live on the other side of the country, have a daughter who is a senior in college in the same town we live in. It’s not uncommon for the daughter to spend holidays like ...