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MY oldest mate is totally self-obsessed.

We went out together the other night and she never stopped talking about herself (and how gorgeous/clever/funny she is) from the minute we met at 8pm to when I dropped her home in a cab at midnight.

She brags, she flicks her hair and thinks nothing of telling me how much everyone adores her.

Well, I’m struggling to even like her at the moment. Since gaining a promotion at work and meeting a new guy, she’s become unbearable.

She never asks me about myself and doesn’t even know my mother is battling breast cancer, because she never stops boasting long enough for me to get a word in.

Things are particularly gross when she starts telling me about the amazing sex life she’s enjoying with her new man. No detail is omitted and it makes me queasy. What can I say to her? JANE SAYS: I agree that something needs to be said to your “friend”.

Try to keep your cool. Invite her to your place and calmly ask her to hear you out.

Say that you value her friendship, but something has to change. You are her equal and won’t be talked at and ignored.

She has to be prepared to listen to you and accept that you have a life and issues too. Tell her about your sick mother, shame her into listening for once in her life.

If she’s not actually interested in you, if you’re not anything more than a prop, then it’s time to rethink this friendship.

I get it that you’ve been friends since school, but not all friendships go the distance and you could find that you’re a lot happier without her.