Tried to take a break from the friendship and now she's blowing up my phone nonstop
My aunt and I were friends until recently when I decided that she was too draining to talk to regularly. In the last 5 years, it seems as if she has changed for the worse. She has become so negative, selfish, helpless, nosey, and now she's clingy. She doesn't respect my feelings and the conversations were boring and depressing. I would try hard to make the conversations lively and funny but with her it was pointless.
It had gotten to the point where I would see her calling, and dreaded answering so I would let voicemail pick up. If I didn't call her back fast enough, she would call 10 times and leave voicemails throughout the day even though she knew I was at work. She's retired and always talks about how bored she is but when she calls, she doesn't respect my work schedule. She'll call early in the morning while I'm getting ready for work, she calls while I'm at work, she calls during lunchtime and while I'm driving home from work even thought she knows my schedule.
She had started to become very nosy asking a lot of personal questions that she never used to ask. I have a good reason to believe that she passing information 'about me to my other aunt who I don't have a relationship with.
Finally, I had enough and stopped returning her calls 3 weeks ago. She called so much I had to block her number to make it stop. I unblocked her a couple of days ago and she's still calling and leaving multiple messages simply saying she's been trying to reach me and to call her back.
I'm disgusted and don't want to talk to her but at the same time, I want her to stop. What would you do in this situation?