DEAR ABBY: I have an old friend who lives an hour from me. I visit her for the day and come home. I have never invited her to spend the night at my home, nor do I expect her to invite me for a sleepover when I drive down to see her.

DEAR ABBY: I have an old friend who lives an hour from me. I visit her for the day and come home. I have never invited her to spend the night at my home, nor do I expect her to invite me for a sleepover when I drive down to see her.

Dear Abby: I have an old friend who lives an hour from me. I visit her for the day and come home. I have never invited her to spend the night at my home, nor do I expect her to invite me for a sleepover when I drive down to see her.

"What can I do to put an end to her uninvited overnight stays without hurting her or risking sending her into meltdown?"

Dear Abby helps a woman who has a friend that makes constant trips to see her and wants to find a polite way to tell her no, avoiding a possible meltdown.

She refused to do anything except eat and talk. I am not a sitter, and I hated doing it, but she’s a good friend.

A reader is troubled that her friend is housing a sex offender when there are children living next door. Dear Abby: My friend of eight years has her 55-year-old son living with her. She has been driving a man around who she told me is a friend of her son’s and she knows his family.