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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all your thoughts.  To be clear, I don't think my friend is a sanctimommy.

I was trying to think of a good example of what bothers me - She'll talk with absolute confidence about potty training when someone asks a question, but she has yet to train her child, who is 2.  How can you be so sure about potty training when you've never done it?  She went to a potty training class though.

I just try to remember that we have different lives- not judging either as better or worse, just different. She has one child and stays at home.  Said child is 2.  I have 3 children, 2 of whom are older than hers.  I work out of the home.[/quote]

I'd be annoyed by that too!   It'd be one thing if she was humble about it and just genuinely trying to share information.   "Well, I haven't gone through it yet, but at the potty training class they told us XYZ -- do you think that would help?"   I'm gathering from your description that she doesn't present her information like that!

But you say that most of the time she does have good information -- so you have a choice -- either hang on to her as a friend, despite her annoying trait, because she actually has useful information; or dump her.

You might also be jealous of her life.   That happens!   I do feel like the people who seem to have the best lives have all ended up divorced, though, 8 years later.   So sometimes you never know.[/quote]

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