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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: how do we deal with a neighbour who is stealing our friends?

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

Q. A dear friend of long-standing has a propensity to make friends of our friends — people she has first met in our house. She invites them to hers, some even to her principal abode nearly 650 miles distant, but doesn’t include us. Some have then invited her without us, some have even taken holidays with her.

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