How to Handle Your Troublesome Friend
We need help from friends and also we should give out help to friends. But sometimes you will meet a troublesome and not-that-close friend that keeps calling you. And you really can't bear what she/he does but you can't - or don't want to - cut her out of your life, we've got clever and easy tips for the situation..

For example, she's constantly chewing your ear off about some "crisis," from a fight with her husband to the way to cook a dish. And you're sick of it.

Shorten those long, whiny phone calls and conversations. After a few minutes, you could say, "Wow, that sounds so tough." Then tell her you have to run to take care of your child at home or buy the necessities from your to-do list. She's less apt to continue her talk if you insist on leaving or hanging up.


Invite others when you two will be together. Include other friends in your plans with her so the conversation won't revolve around her sob stories.


Give a good suggestion and end her/his complain. When you do lend your ear, ask her how she could solve her "crisis." If she says, "It's hopeless," gently insist that there must be a solution. She'll either take her griping elsewhere or start fixing her life on her own. That’s a win-win solution.

Remember, these tips are for those really troublesome people. Otherwise, you should always be willing to listen to your friends' trouble and help them as possible as you can.
 
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