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[quote=Anonymous]OP,

Either you let the friendship die or you only see her without kids.  I had a similar issue, but not quite the same.  I am friends with someone whose kid is kind of a pain, but not badly behaved.  Just whiny and clingy and needy and in upper elementary school so he should be able to play independently with other kids while adults hang out.  He simply prefers the company of adults to other kids.  When sent back to go play with the kids, he throws things or wrecks the game the other kids are playing or has some other kind of melt down.  We just stopped doing play dates for a while and only got together for adults only dinners or coffee dates or whatever.  We didn't discuss it, but that is the way it worked out.  Eventually he passed through that stage enough so that he will go entertain himself if he doesn't want to play with the other kids.

See if you can do some ladies only outings and maybe you can keep the friendship going enough to see if the kid passes through this stage.[/quote]

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