I wouldn't frame the mother in a bad light so much if this were, say, a long time established friend or close friend but it doesn't sound like this is the case.
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I have this friend that I met because we enrolled to the same univ at the same year. Let’s call her Brittany. We don’t have anything in common except we are from the same country but she is still a good friend of mine. ...
We don’t get in touch for a long time because Brittany got herself a boyfriend, and now that they broke up, her mom starting to text me a lot. I’m assuming this is also happening to her ex bf because I heard of a story before.
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Sounds more like an acquaintance that resulted from having the fact that they are both abroad studying. Not having anything in common, I have a hard time thinking this is a close friendship from the description.
In a close friendship many times one will become close to the family because of the friendship established over many years and then in (some) cases, the parent or parents is in communication with the friend and then it's kind of a given that this kind of expectation would be present.
But in this situation I do think it's odd, first that the mother even has her number and second that she would put this pressure on someone that is, assuming I'm right, a casual acquaintance.
It actually makes me feel like the mother is quite the meddler and possibly a controlling one. I mean sharing the academics of her daughter with a friend to try to get them to help fix the problem? That's a bit intrusive to both the daughter and the acquaintance in my honest opinion.