She maybe wanted a distraction from her problems and simply meeting with you having a good time and talk about nothing bad.

Being a friend doesn’t always mean you want to unload drama on them at all times or ask them to share their pains when they aren’t up to it.

I am currently grieving untimely death of my mother. It doesn’t mean when I go out with friends I want to bring up my mother in the middle of a restaurant and even worse, start crying.

I think if you want to be there for your friend you can kind of take her lead on it. If she didn’t want to discuss bad stuff, there was no need for it. Meeting up with you gave her a reprieve from a problem. Talking about problems is important but that’s not always needed or required or timely.

I belong to a group of 4 girlfriends who we sometimes discuss life challenges with or sometimes we just have a good time. It depends. But whoever has current challenges is the one to bring it up. It’s not for others to harass us about sharing. We share when we want to not when others wants us to