Dear Roe,
Why has our friend changed so much? A group of us, who have been close friends since college, have one friend who we have recently started to see a different side to. Everything she does and talks about seems to revolve around her, her career, her big house and expensive car. She has strong opinions on many topics, which she loves to let everyone know about with an air of superiority. One of the most concerning aspects is her commentary on other mutual friends.
If she meets someone from the extended friend group by herself and you later inquire how they are keeping, the reply invariably revolves around their weight, how they look and what they have in the material sense (car, house, money or not), and not how the actual person is in the context of their wellbeing or family, which is what the rest of us are interested in as good friends.
We recently discovered she has betrayed the confidence of certain friends, causing friction between them and their partners. She earns people’s trust but later gossips.
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