Who needs Enemies When They Have (So Called) Friends Like These

I'm angry, very angry and I suppose slightly upset that people can't be honest and have to make excuses all the time.

I have had a friend for the last 3 years, she helped me loads when I was a complete mess with the Darren break-up, she was totally there for me, we have spent nearly everyday together for those years. Recently she has been going through a rough time, I was there for her, she asked me questions, I answered truthfully, maybe she didn't like what I said all the time, but it works both ways, I haven't always liked or agreed with what she has said to me.

The last few weeks she has seemed a bit offish with me, she used to come round for cups of tea before we picked our kids up from school (as I have turned a bit recluse-like since coming back from Ireland) but that has stopped. We had an agreement that I would go to her house for tea on Wednesdays and her and her daughter would come to mine on Fridays, after the first week she text me saying she thought it would be better if we left the visits until Springtime as the weather was too cold to do it now, I accepted what she said and agreed with it.

So anyway it got to the stage in the last 2 weeks that she started dropping her daughter off at school earlier than usual so she didn't have to see me (thats how i saw it anyway), then after school we would walk to my house together and then she would carry on to her house. I asked her if I had done anything wrong, or upset her in any way and she assured me I hadn't and that I was just being silly thinking like that.

That brings us to today, we walk to my house together, she carries on to hers and then I receive a text it said....'Rachel I think its best we don't walk home with you and Georgia anymore. Bronte knows not to ask to play after school but Georgia just makes it awkward because she still asks. I don't mean this nasty but I like coming home'.

I agree, Georgia does ask on a daily basis for Bronte to come and play, probably because she has no one else her age around here who she can play with, but it doesn't make it awkward for her at all..it's me who has to put up with the temper tantrums from Georgia all evening.

Maybe I have taken it all the wrong way, but as I see it with the change in her over the last few weeks, I think she is just making up excuses, why can't she just be honest and say to me that she doesn't want my friendship anymore?

Rant over.