Friend of a Friend

For my first fitch, I'd like to talk about obnoxious friends of friends. There's this girl who is a friend of a very close girlfriend of mine, and somehow she has wormed her way into the proximity of my friendship. I can't stand her. Somehow, through our pseudo-friendship, she has found a way to alienate a friend of my hubby's, piss of my hubby (who is the hardest person in the world to piss off... trust me), and make me actually seriously worry about a very dear friendship of mine. She is a toxin.

So how much does a person have to put up with a friend of a friend, really? If I had a friend who was clearly lying about someone else, I'd call him or her out. Why? Because that's what a friend does (at least in my book)-- a friend keeps his or her friend from looking like/being a totally d-bag. However, I would not ever in a million years call someone out if I did not have a close relationship with that person. That's just rude. So... where does the friend of a friend fall? I can't really call her out, because I think it falls too far down the rudeness spectrum, but her lies and crap are directly affecting my family, my friendships, and our peace and happiness. Is she an enemy? A frenemy? The FoF is a whole other entity of person with whom one has to deal, and there doesn't seem to be any clear rule book. So far, all I've come up with is anonymously fitching about this person on a blog that my friends don't even know I keep. I wonder if that makes me a coward, or if perhaps it makes me somewhat more polite for keeping it out of work/friendship/life and neatly contained in the blogosphere.

At any rate, the venting has made me feel better, which is supposed to be the point of this blog.

Sweet.