Thank you very much for your insightful input!

It is my abusive ex boyfriend who told me what this friend had said about me. I think he WANTED to bring me down by telling me this!! This same ex -- before we even dated -- told me that no guy will want me because I live with my parents -- another attempt to crush my self-esteem.

This ex boyfriend is toxic. My current boyfriend is right. I should not be friendly with him because he used to emotionally abuse me. We're friendly today because his mom died and he approached me a year after not talking to become friends again. We were good friends for six years before we dated and became very close emotionally before we dated. But he abused me when we were a couple.

I will continue to just be myself. I feel better about myself than when I posted this thread.... like I said above though, that person's words still sting. It doesn't feel good to know that someone out there thinks I'm all "drama". But not everyone is going to like me and I know I have to accept that.