Does anyone have any tips for dealing with a friend who has become too clingy? She is not ill or in any kind of precarious situation but she now calls me every day and if I don’t pick up she sends texts and emails telling me to call her back or asking me why I am ‘sulking’. I’m just busy with something or someone else! She suggests we meet every couple of days and when I say I have other plans that day she promptly rings again the next day with yet another suggested meeting. It’s just too much. She has other friends, as do I, and I just can’t spend that much time with her or give her exclusive attention. I’ve tried having a conversation with her about this but to no avail. One morning she sent me nine text messages about trivial things she was doing. I don’t want to be unkind but her persistence is causing me stress and I need her to back off and give me some ‘space’!
