I wonder whether anyone could advise me on something. The problem is with a very longstanding university friend who, recently met someone online after her husband died. Since then, she has bombarded me with WhatsApp photos of the two of them together every few days. In addition to this, she sends multiple photos and videos of her many grandchildren, again every few days. The thing is she knows I’ve been going through a hard time over the past few years. My husband has terminal cancer, my daughter has mental health issues and will probably never have children and my son and his wife had huge problems before they had their son, who will probably be their only child. Please don’t think I’m feeling sorry for myself because I’m not. I just find her behaviour rather tactless and insensitive (she accompanies her photos with a short line of text but never asks how any of us are). I’ve been deliberately ignoring them for the past few weeks, hoping she might take the hint, but still they come. I really want it to stop but don’t want to appear churlish or unkind. I’m certainly not jealous, she’s not in the best of health and has no other close friends. I’m glad she’s met someone special, I just don’t want it in my face all the time.
