My mother always taught me that if someone gives you a gift, you make sure to thank the person and take the gift with you. If you don’t take the gift or say thank you, then that person will feel like you don’t appreciate them. My best friend doesn’t seem to appreciate anything that the children and I do for her.
Every time we give her something, she conveniently continues to forget it. Isabelle made her the cutest drawing, and a month later, it is still at my house. My parents went to Japan, and I gave her a fan from there. I had to remind her over three times until she finally took it home. Yesterday, I was buying water bottles, and I remembered that she needed one, so I bought her one. She informs me that she forgot it.
Maybe it’s cause I haven’t slept or I am already irritated on how selfish she is, but I exploded. I didn’t yell or anything, but I let her know that I was tired of the lack of appreciation or respect she has when the kids and I do anything for her. Her flaky friend got her something in Turkey, and she hung it up right away. Her excuse? Her friend took it to her house, which is something that I barely do.
I’m getting tired of having such a selfish, disrespectful friend. Or am I overreacting?
