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[quote=Anonymous]Have you led a pretty charmed life OP?  I ask because many of my close friendships at this stage have formed around stressors-raising a child with special needs, eldercare issues with a challenging parent, bonding over husband's health issues.

I had perfectly nice acquiescence who tried to become closer to me and complained she has no close friends. I like her a lot, but there is no depth and she cannot even fathom or have empathy for the life challenges many of us face. She will spend all of coffee time talking about how her daughter may drop pre-med and got the scientist route instead and they really had their hearts set on her being a doctor.

Then there is her mother, who even she admits is the kindest and gentlest soul-she always thanks them for visiting and tells her how proud she is of her and her children. Truly am happy for her, but quite a few of us have a sh&tshow going on where we basically face verbal and emotional abuse being there for mom. This woman literally assumed people who complain must just be bad daughters. She just lives in an easy life bubble, yet the smallest set back sets her off and she obsess to you over somehow not texting back and it's only been 24 hours.

OP my life is filled to the brim with real life stressors. If I don't hear from someone I assume their life is like this too or there was an emergency or she is busy or we just don't click in her book. I then get some emergency call that mom fell or my kid has to be taken to the ER or whatever and I don't have time to plot and plan cornering someone at a social gathering because she didn't want to do coffee. My friends don't deserve that, even the ones who are just light friends. If they bring me joy I am grateful.[/quote]

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