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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I agree with many of the prior posters that you need to give a firm two weeks notice and end the business aspect of your relationship with this friend/neighbor. If you’re concerned that she will try to wheedle you into continuing on, perhaps you could emphasize that it is your husband's wish that you focus on mothering your son and that you give up your venture into home daycare.

I would like to suggest that you look inward and reassess your commitment to this friend, who really doesn’t appear from an objective standpoint to be a very good friend to you - if a friend at all. She accused you, passively aggressively, of abandoning your son and thus damaging him in some way by sleep training him. She has apparently (from your depiction of conversations) repeatedly blamed you for the behavior issues her own son us experiencing, quite possibly because he is sleep deprived by her coddling approach to parenting. Yet you fiercely defend her against any criticism from posters here who are able to assess the information you provided objectively, not knowing of having affection for her and not knowing or having affection for you. You sound like a people pleaser who puts her own self interest - and even the self interest of her child to some extent - behind the efforts to please a ‘friend’ who will in all likelihood respond to your two weeks notice with barely veiled anger and a serious cooling off of her ‘affection’ for you, because she’s not your friend, she’s a user and narcissist who made you feel good when you didn’t have the ability to access your usual friendships because of the pandemic. I suggest you consider the possibility that this ‘friendship’ was for a season and that season is coming to an end. Certainly the daycare of her baby needs to come to an end, because it is demanding that you neglect your own son and yourself. [/quote]

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