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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter's friend (we'll call her M) does not really have any friends outside their small friend group, whereas my daughter and the other girls in the group have other friends with whom they will sometimes hang out with. They are in 8th grade. Whenever my daughter does something without M, M goes pretty crazy and tells my daughter that if she were a real friend she'd invite M, how she should cancel the plans with the other girls and hang out with her instead, etc. My daughter woke up to a string of 8 text messages this morning telling her   what a terrible friend she is, how she doesn't care about M, etc. (similar things have happened in the past).

I don't know what to tell her. Drop the friend? [/quote]

Why can’t she ever invite her to go join the group and why does she keep their friendship separate? Many friends introduce their friends to each other and they become friends as well and it becomes a larger group.[/quote]

You are kidding right?  That is your advice to OP?  My daughter has friends friends from the neighborhood, friends from school, friends from her sports, etc.  When she hosts a sleepover with her soccer friends, it is just her soccer friends.  Why does she have to go out of her way to invite a random friend that doesn't relate to the group?   Now, if the OPs daughter was inviting everyone from their school group and now this girl, that would be mean.  But I don't think she is doing anything wrong.  [/quote]

Because it's not a random friend. From OP's post, it seems they all know each other.[/quote]

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