How to tell if your friend is really a frenemy
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She gives you back-handed insults and never misses an opportunity to sow insecurity and self-doubt in your mind, so how do you deal with a toxic frenemy?
By Christine Fieldhouse
Whenever Maya passes an exam, beats a personal best in a marathon or lands a contract for work, most of her friends and her family are delighted for her. They send congratulatory texts or suggest going out for a celebratory Indian meal.
All except Simone, who even though she lives in the same apartment block as Maya in Dubai Marina, and who showers her with public displays of affection, will always leave Maya felling less confident as if she’s not worthy of any praise.
‘She’ll say well done but then she goes on about how lucky I am to have the time to train for marathons,’ says Maya, 36. ‘She jokes my son will start to think our nanny’s his mother if I continue to go running every night after work, or to the gym at the weekend.
‘When I passed my last exams, she hinted the pass mark was lower than usual, and ...
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