The "SEE ME" friends...

I have a friend like this. She's an only child and her parents are freakishly overprotective of her so I can see where it comes from.

Personally most friends with problems like these and others, I just crop them up to their flaws. I'm not dating them and I have other friends so if they have a failing or two that doesn't impede the friendship to such a level I can't stand, then I just let it slide most of the time. I just don't think it's worth the drama and conflict to tell them. In the rare cases I'm close enough to someone where it's gotten to such a point, I will tell them but usually in a 3rd person perspective. Like that it's not my problem but it will be a problem that most people will not approve of. Or this one time where I said to my friend that her mom probably wouldn't approve of it (she had a tendency to start texting people in the middle of conversations with you), since I knew her mom and I knew she would have taught her daughter better.

Jam it back in, in the dark.