Miss Manners: I challenged my co-worker and now she ignores me

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Miss Manners: I challenged my co-worker and now she ignores me
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Advice from Judith Martin, Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin.

Over the past year, I built a friendship with one of my co-workers in a very prestigious organization. We are both in our 50s. She can be hyper-verbal at times. She started volunteering information about many things -- her salary, her poor upbringing, her marital details, her husband’s personal habits, her spirituality preferences, etc. -- hoping, I believe, that I would do the same.

I finally snapped when she got too inquisitive about a confidential issue. I told her to please not ask me so many questions as it makes me anxious. I categorically stated that what I do in my house is my business, and vice versa. Her behavior seems extremely childish to me. I am not sure what I did here, except put a stop to some annoying, unnecessary inquisitions. What do I do now?: One would have thought it became annoying when she started sharing personal information at work.

I find this embarrassing and incredibly rude. Others may be waiting for just the same thing: to tell the host that they have reservations. We actually got into an argument years ago after he insisted on doing this and I told him I was uncomfortable with it. We decided to leave after being seated because he got heated with me.: Interrupting a conversation in progress is, of course, rude.

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