I have a group of local friends I socialise with regularly and one of them (I'll call her Beryl) tends to dominate the conversation whenever we are all together. It's really getting quite tiring now and although we all love her dearly it's getting to the point when we don't want to invite her when we go out. Last Saturday was a prime example. I have a very old friend who doesn't live locally (I'll call her Ann), so although none of the group have ever met her they know quite a lot about her as I often speak of her. This friend has been very unwell over the past few years and on Saturday one of the group inquired how she was. I started to tell them and Beryl immediately took over the conversation telling them things about Ann that I had told her previously! I was hoping someone would say 'oh! I didn't know you knew Ann' but unfortunately they didn't. This kind of thing happens regularly and Beryl will often try to take credit for things that I've done by giving the impression that she's done them or it was her idea in the first place.
I really like Beryl and enjoy her company when it's just the two of us but we are all really tired of her dominating the conversation when we're in a group to the point where we try to organise getting together at times we know she's not available. I feel I need to find a way of telling Beryl that we're tired of her behaviour but no idea how to do it without upsetting her.
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