Dear Annie: I have a friend who was diagnosed with lymphoma. She’s undergone treatment and is now in remission. Although her cancer is hereditary, she refuses to tell her adult children. She tells people she only has five years to live and uses that to manipulate family and friends to get what she wants.

She has changed, or at least I’ve started to see another side of her -- one that constantly puts me down, uses me to complain about everyone and believes she is always right. It got to the point that I cringed every time she called. I lost nine cousins in a year, which really hurt. When I tried to tell her how sad I was, she just ignored me and changed the subject back to her.

I finally got to the point where I just couldn’t take it anymore, and to keep my sanity and get my self-esteem

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