Friends

Gah

There is a chance I need new friends

You know the kind of friends who think they know what's best for you and kinda embroider the truth to push you into a decision they think is best?

One of my so-called-friends decided to tell me today that my boyfriend was messing around with a girl who is kinda his best friend. Now before I get the your-boyfriend-should-be-your-best-friend schpeel hear me out. We're both 18 so this is not a we-will-get-married kinda relationship, it's a we're pretty much best friends, we like hanging out, and we're attracted. So we'll give this a try.

Anyway just like he has a fair few female friends I have a lot of male friends. All my best friends bar one are male - so I'm not one to say they're friends they must be sleeping toghether!

But as some of you may or may not know, I suffer from depression and paranoia. And when I'm in one of those the-voices-shut-up, paranoid kinda moods, it's not the best time to tell me that they're messing around together. Spesh when all they've been doing is spending a fair bit of time together while i've been at my Dad's for 2 weeks (ok fair enuf all of the friends our age - the girl is 2 years younger - have jobs, and the majority of our friends who are 16 - ie her best friends - have been away) and holding hands a bit... which i do with my male best mates

Anyway result of this conversation? I sent a message to HER best mate, who happens to be a close friend of mine saying why the hell didn't you tell me? And then had to spend a fair bit of the day clearing up the mess after I got over the paranoia and realised the absurdity of what I'd been told

So yeh rant over. But does anyone else have friends who try to manipulate them like this?