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myLot reputation of 95/100. drillerswife (1139) 5 years ago

Ok. My husband and I have many friends and we help one another out from time to time right. Well theres one certain friend that we help out all the time.
He wears out his welcome basically. When my husband and I are out and about visiting our friends we usually run into him. He gets in the truck with us and he wont go home. He will come home with my husband and I that puts us with no privacy. Plus the food bill because this guy can EAT! He wont go home the next day, he stays with us for the whole weekend and longer if we dont take him home. By Sunday afternoon we have no cigarettes because he has taken it upon hisself to get them.
He owes us money right now and wont pay us. We loaned him some money about 3 almost 4 weeks ago and since then the guy has somehow managed to get 2 tattoos. They worth over $200 of tattooss.
Granted this guy will give the shirt off his back for you and a nice guy but when is enough enough?
Like yesterday, my husband and a friend of mines husband had to leave the house for a few hours because of a baby shower. The guys came back when the shower was all done and we were still there talking to everybody. Another buddy brought pulled in right behind my husband with the guy that bums off of us. We immediately took off to avoid him you know and went to our uncles house due to a tattoo party. They followed us the other guy came and dropped the bum off and left. This mad my husband mad and when he gets mad theres no talking to him because hes only focused on one thing. My husband cousin was even talking to him talking about 4 wheeling and that didnt work. Nothing happened because of a pregnant woman in the house which Im glad. We ended up having to take him home and my husband didnt say one word to him.
Ok now that yall got an idea of whats going on how can I stop this from bumming off us all the time? What can I do that wont hurt the friendship? We help anybody out when we can that would help themselves and it seems like he wants everybody to take care of him. He did this to the friend who had a baby shower yesterday and she feels the same way I do. Any helpful advice will be greatly appreciated Thanks

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1. myLot reputation of 91/100. flowerchilde (8018)   ranked 381 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

I would just tell him nicely you can't afford it! And stick to it.. and nicely tell him it over and over.. can only sleep over for the night and have breakfast, only one, maybe two cigs, after that he simply has to leave, tell him he knows how expensive all things are.. sorry bud, just can't do it anymore.. and we don't want to get mad at you over it and wreck the friendship.. repeat a shortened version of it each time if needed.. if he goes ahead and wrecks the friendship you'll know he wasn't a friend but just a user and may as well find it out now as years down the road. No one will blame you.. Good luck!:)


myLot reputation of 95/100. drillerswife (1139)  5 years ago

Thanks Im going to see if this works and go from there.

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2. myLot reputation of 79/100. vkbllm (348)   ranked 3,611 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

Well Hi to you driller.....
Your problem seems to bit of complicate and unusual but not unheard. Many people I know often comes to me with such problem. I think you despise that person and all the same you dont want ur relations to be breaked with him. But let me tell you he does not deserve your favour, si its time that you and your husband consider their relation with that prat more seriously. Just give him some tough time and bring him back to earth. Show him that he cant take you people for granted. If you succed in this you will soon find ur plan working...!!!!
So Good Luck to you!
Till than Bye!

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3. myLot reputation of 86/100. edigital (2341)   ranked 2,321 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

I think your friend has no hard job so he is staying with you some more days after week ends. Give him a hard job so that he keep himself engaged in work and make his own weekend by himself. He has no other friends like you so he is loving to keep associated with you. So you can arrange a good friend for him and tell him that :hey vagabond friend, keep busy with new friend and visit us when you find time" I think no other way to go off from him because the taste he got from you will never forget until he get new assignment with a new friend for weekend.


myLot reputation of 95/100. drillerswife (1139)  5 years ago

Job or no job he still bummed off of us. He used to work with my husband and he even lived with us until I told my husband something had to be done.

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4. myLot reputation of 90/100. butterfly39 (2617)   ranked 379 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

Since he is your friend then I am sure you can talk to him in a nice way. Tell him the friendship is not the same as before. There's always limitation.

There's no harm in trying to tell the truth then and I know he will understand that. Maybe he is confident enough because you're both very nice to him...so just let your husband to have a heart to heart talk with that guy. And if the guy won't listen the that's the time that you'll avoid him .

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5. myLot reputation of 91/100. jillbeth (2270)   ranked 5,035 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

People can only take advantage of you as long as you let them. Is this guy really a friend? Because a true friend wouldn't treat his friends like a free ride. You need to firmly tell him when to go home, to buy his own cigs, and all that other stuff. If he gets mad and stops hanging around, too bad for him! Who needs "friends" like this one?

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6. myLot reputation of 96/100. sandeep_t (340)   ranked 1,330 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

Do you call this friendship? I call the parasites and virus, who needs to be killed. Even i have couple of such friends. It is very nice to pass time with them. But then they always used to ask me for money. Initially inever gave them telling that i dont have o i have a need or so. When they persisted, i gave one of my friend 2000 bucks. I badlyhoped that he should not return them, as i devised a plan. It so happened that he never returned the mney. So i began telling all other friends that this guys has taken money and never returned. I always used to ask him my money when ever he is around. Since i have been taking too much about this, my other friends never dared to ask me anything and even this fellow neve asked me again although he didn't returned my money yet. However i brought an end to this and still could maintain friendship with everybody.

I know its not good to speak about others, but then this is just simple trick. Hope this works for you as well. It all depends on how you talk and be very careful in choosing the words. It should appear so casual but should hurt them badly.

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7. myLot reputation of 98/100. vicki2876 (3283)   ranked 119 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

You said that you would like to help someone who want to help himself. He doesn't seem like he wants to help himself. I would keep telling him that you are broke. Even if you all are sporting new tattoos and stuff. LOL If he is a true friend he will understand. If he doesn't then is he really a friend or just a freeloader looking for the next free ride.

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8. myLot reputation of 97/100. deebomb (10022)   ranked 988 out of 26,920 in people   5 years ago

This man seems to have forgotten to grow up. This man is not your friend at this point. You and your husband are resenting him so you need to move him on. The best thing you could do for him is to cut him adrift. No more cig. No more loans and no more allowing him to stay at your house. You are enabling him to be a mouch. As long as you and your friends keep helping him he will stay right where he is. You and your friends are doing a smoothering mother thing.

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