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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Normally friends take breaks all the time when they are busy and no one really notices because everyone else is busy.

This person will need to be told directly.

I'd call her back and say "I just have five minutes now, but I wanted to check if you need emergency help since you called me 25 times. Is there an emergency?"

Then if it's not say "I don't want to hurt your feelings, but that's way too many times to call someone. I'm going to need to focus on xyz over the rest of summer. I'm sorry I won't be able to give you that kind of attention, but it's better for our friendship long term if we dial it down now and check in again in September."

That assumes that you really do care about this person. [/quote]

The interspersed texts show that it isn't an emergency. Also, I would never spend time calling and texting someone this many times if I were truly having an emergency. I would call 911. [/quote]

Well there are different levels of emergency, using that term very loosely. I couldn't imagine that many messages without some sort of crisis.[/quote]

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