I have this person that I am friends with but have decided that I don't like the person I am when I'm around her. I become materialistic, jealous and very immature. I want to be an adult and find myself regressing when I'm around her. Well I don't call her anymore and told her a few weeks ago please don't call me after 8:00p.m. because I am back in school and will have homework to do. Well tonight I was working hard on my accounting and getting stressed when the phone rang btw it was 8:15 when this happened. It was Michelle. I calmly told her I was doing homework, reminded her of the boundary I put up and then she got mad. She said well I have to work...she only works til 8, 1 day a week the rest of the time she's off at 4 or 5. I told her that if she wanted to she could call me on her days off but right now I am busy with school and at the moment am working really hard on my accounting because I made a mistake and need to find it. I quickly got off the phone with her and went back to my accounting. Well I feel guilty because she doesn't have many friends and she calls me her best friend.

I don't want to fall back into destructive behaviors and think that if I continue to hang around her that I will. So my question is how do I tell her that I don't want to hang around her anymore without hurting her feelings?

Jbug