When Friends Treat Us Too Much Like Family


QUESTION 

Hi Irene, 

I go to cooking with a same organisation of women for opposite reasons: birthdays, epicurean dinners, etc. A crony in a group, whom we speak with in a accessible approach on a phone, always ignores me when we are out as a group. It hurts though we don’t know if she realizes it. How can we let her know it is hurtful to me. Thank you. 

Best, Lissa 

ANSWER 

Hi Lissa, 

As a effect of familiarity, we mostly take friends for postulated and are reduction well-behaved and courteous to them than we are to some-more apart acquaintances. In a bizarre way, we provide them like family or kissing cousins.

Your feelings of harm are totally understandable.

One probable explanation, nonetheless not an forgive for her behavior, might be that she feels like we both speak some-more mostly and share a common bond. She also might feel some-more concerned socially in a organisation than when she’s articulate to we one-on-one. 

My idea would be to ask to have coffee with her and to move this to her courtesy when we meet. Tell her we so suffer your phone chats and have beheld that in a organisation setting, we feel she doesn’t rivet with we and you’re not certain if she means to come opposite this way. Let her know that we are bringing this adult since we value your tie with her and feel harm and confused.  

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