Darn. My "best friend" (childhood best friends) really manipulates me. She is critical on the phone and in emails. I didn't communicate with her for about 10 months because I was going through some tough stuff and felt I couldn't handle her. I recently (in the last few months) started communicating with her again, and now I feel she is once again being critical and controlling.

She then sends me cards with all this mushy stuff about being best friends, and leaves similar messages on facebook.

Do you hang on to friendships because the thought of letting go hurts too much? I would like to add that when I am in a better place in my life these things bother me less, and I certainly don't let my friend act abusively towards me. But I now see that this is a habit and something she always does when I am at a low point. It hurts, guys. Am I being way too sensitive? I think...maybe.