Clingy friends

Date: 22 june 2025 

Having a clingy friend doesn’t seem like an issue in theory, but once u get one it can get sorta exhausting. My friend had been talking abt how much we can hang out during summer break, and I was originally hyped for it. And when summer came we decided on a day to hang out.

But then he started talking abt how he wanted it to be a sleepover, and no matter what I said he insisted on it being a sleepover. Eventually I got out of it but it was a struggle. He also wanted to hangout the week after that as well. He wanted me to ask my childhood friend, that has met him once and doesn’t know him well at all, for her schedule next week so we can all hangout. He wants to hangout with my other friends, that also don’t know him that well and one of which is not big on talking to ppl outside the friend group. And he wants me to come to his house for the two of us to hangout, and he wants to hangout “a lot”. 

He asked me what I was doing this week and I told him that me and some of MY friends were going to have a sleepover. He responds with “I don’t think I will come”… u weren’t invited? I try to explain to him that he wasn’t invited, not cs I wanna be mean, but bcs I want him to understand that u can’t just assume ur invited to something just cs I’m telling u abt it. I don’t wanna have to hide my plans from him just so he won’t invite himself. And when I go “ye u weren’t a part of the plan, so that would be weird if u came” he goes “no I won’t be coming to that!”. What? If his goal was to make me triggered as fuck then he definitely succeeded.

Anyways I’m not gonna say anything to him I’m just gonna be more strict in the future abt how ME having plans doesn’t mean HE has them too. A lot has happened this week so I might make a post abt that too soon.

- Elliot