Abuse

I have been friends with my neighbor, Jen, since she has lived next door to me, which has been almost four years now. At one point in time whenever you seen one of us you seen the other. I will admit that I am not the type that likes to have a lot of friends so when I do have one I am there for them 100%. Lately, I have become friends with another neighbor, Elaine. I don’t think that there is anything wrong with having more than one friend but apparently Jen does. I have noticed that she gets upset when I go anywhere with Elaine or even if I do anything at the house with her. To me it seems like Jen is fighting for my friendship or is even jealous if I have another friend. I guess you can say that the issue here is that I have more than one friend and not enough time in each day. I would have to say that the problem is that Jen is becoming too jealous or even envy of Elaine. I try to work things together where we all could go and do something but Jen never wants to but yet always complains when we don’t ask her if she wants to come with us. I finally sat down with Jen the other day and explained to her why we don’t ask her to go anywhere with us anymore. I informed her that when we do ask she always makes up some excuse on why she can’t or won’t go with. It is getting to the point that she is so jealous of me spending time with anyone else other than her that I don’t even want to be around her. What makes things even worse is that Jen and Elaine are the same age and went to high school together where as I am a few years older and went to a different high school than the two. In high school they were friends and over the years had lost contract with each other. I ended up meeting Elaine through Jen’s introductions when Elaine moved into the area. I am not sure what I can do about this. I feel like I have more in common with Elaine and even though Jen has been the one that has always been there for me I feel like I can’t trust her anymore.