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Old Jun 20, 2011, 11:33 AM
lizzardspock lizzardspock is offline
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I met this friend (I will call her Maya) about a year ago. We were at the time both new to the town, just starting Uni, going to same classes and living couple of minutes away from each other. Maya is truly a sweet girl, funny and smart. I have a lot of fun hanging out with her. I don't think I am necessarily emotionally invested in our friendship because I just don't feel that special bond with her that I feel with a few friends of mine. This does not prevent me from listening to her serious problems, being discrete about them and giving here the best possible advice I can think of. I don't expect that kind of treatment in return because as I said-she is not one of those people I truly feel connected to.

All sweetness aside-Maya is a very selfish girl. Why do I think this? These are some of the situations:
-One time we were doing an assignment; Maya,me and another friend I will call Christina. It was the night before turning in the assignment when Maya phoned me up and asked me whether she could come over and look at the book we needed for our assignment (she didn't have her own copy of course) and look up some page references. I told her nicely that Christina had already finished her assignment and she could borrow the book from her and keep it all night-because I am still in the middle of mine and I don't need any distractions. Christina leaves five minutes away from Maya-I live two minutes away from her. Guess she was too lazy to go over to Christina's place and assured me it would take her five minutes to look up the references. She came over and stayed for forty five minutes with me looking up the references for her because naturally-she had no idea where in the book they were. I was visibly annoyed, she did say she was sorry and that was it.

-On other occasion I injured my foot and was unable to walk for several weeks. Once our friend Christina left to go for holidays, I was left alone because Maya's bf was in town. This is not really a problem. I like being alone and it's not like I was missing her. I wanted her to have a nice time with her bf. But then a friend phoned me up and asked me if I wanted to stay with her in a nearby town for a few days so she could take care of me while my foot was in a bad shape. I said yes. I informed Maya of this and the moment I did-she asked me when I was leaving and coming back. Her bf was leaving town a few days before my return and she asked me whether I could come back earlier so she wouldn't be alone. I of course said no and while I was at my friend's place she sent me a few messages telling me she missed me and wanted me back. I found this very annoying. Did I send her messages while she was busy with her bf making her feel bad about not spending time with me? No. I would never do that.

-Most recent thing was her leaving town for holidays. I am leaving my stuff with a friend so I let her use my storage option at my new apartment. On the day of her leaving she phoned me up and asked me whether she could leave some things with me, big things, I am not speaking about a book or a T shirt but bed linens, a duvet and some pillows. I got really frustrated cause this was not the first time she was taking for granted the idea of me doing something she asked me to do. After I told her that there was simply no more room, she phoned a storage service company and informed me they would come pick the things up (asking me therefore to be at home when they arrive) but I would need to put them into boxes. My foot is still injured and I am still on crutches yes this was obviously not a problem for her.

On the other hand I asked her once while I still couldn't walk to go and get me some chocolate in a nearby shop. She said she would do it if somebody would accompany her. Our friend said she couldn't cause she doesn't want me eating sweets (this is a good friend and i understand where it comes from). Then Maya changed the story and said yes-she didn't want me eating sweets as well. She was just too lazy to go by herself.

A few days back she was going to a huge supermarket and I asked her nicely to get me some garbage bags so i could pack my things up (as I am leaving as well) and I would of course give her the money back. She went to the supermarket and apparently did not find the bags-which I find very unlikely. She probably just forgot.

But that's the thing. She expects others to do things for her yet when she is asked to do something she is usually very casual about it and most of the times if she does do a favor-it's sloppy work. I really want to be her friend cause we have a lot of fun together and we are compatible, but this has got to stop cause the friendship won't work unless I feel we are equal regarding this matter. Should I talk to her? How do I go about it?

Thank you again.