my mom has a friend like that, mom desperately tries to put up with her because she knows i'm going through something similar.

and hopefully not always, but yesterday when i found this site i talked everyone's ears off about my problems. it was so good to be able to talk to someone who didn't think you were just imagining things. perhaps that's one of the reasons she talks to you - she knows you'll understand the way most others wouldn't.

but when it gets to the point of disturbing you, it's time to take some sort of action. whether to get rid of her or not, or somehow change the relationship you (in my opinion) need to change something.