Refresher: I'm Annoyed That My Friend Copies Me

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Vanessa says she's starting to get aggravated by a friend from school who follows her around and does whatever Vanessa does. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr Laura Call of the Day Archives and remember you
0:05.6	too can participate on my live radio program heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on
0:11.9	serious XM Triumph 1111.
0:14.3	Mom and Vanessa.
0:18.1	Welcome to the program.
0:19.8	Hi Dr Laura, thank you so much for taking my call
0:24.1	You're welcome Vanessa. How old are you? I'm 14 and what can I do for you?
0:42.4	So I have a good friend and she's nice to me and I like her but she tends to like copy like pretty much a lot of things that I do and I've been
0:48.0	fine with it because like you know she's my friend.
0:51.0	Okay tell me tell me what she copies that are a lot of things.
0:55.0	Tell me the lot of things.
0:57.0	Like, for example, like, I celebrate, well, I practice Lent and for Lent like I gave up like having ice cream and so and so she just
1:10.7	Like she wasn't going to have anything and after I said that she's like oh yeah I'll do that too and the same thing and like at school I founded a club the steam club and like I was originally just going to be my club and then she was just like oh let's do it
1:25.5	together and so she just kind of just takes over whatever I do. And so I was just like I'm fine with all of this but then she just I had
1:39.1	gotten a dress for this formal that's coming up and so I'd shown it to her and some of my other friends
1:47.0	and this past weekend she got like a near,
1:51.0	like almost exactly similar dress as mine just in a different color so I'm not sure what I can do about that.
1:57.0	Well if you the only thing that I see that you can do is stop being that close a friend.
2:07.0	If you know she copies, for example, clothing, then don't show her your dress in head of the formal,
2:13.0	ahead of the formal.
2:14.0	If you start a club, you don't have to discuss with her
2:17.8	that you started this club. Okay. If you gave up something for Lent because you're a religious, you don't have to tell her what you gave up. If you know
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