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I feel the only way for it to stop is to leave this board for a while.
We talk about you because we want to know more. Friends that don't know each other = acquaintance. I'm not sure how you define such relationship. Whether the expression is positive or negative, such expression does not mean you're dumping problems onto one another. You get what you give.