Thnaks--I appreciate your taking the time to respond. Hopefully some other people who have been told the same things as I've been will have some inspiration as well, because it's so discouraging to be up against someone who's a brick wall. She seems so angry at me--disproportionately so, even to the point that she's making stuff up to be angry about. For example, she has told people that I am constantly phoning/e-mailing/texting her, when in reality I have not contacted her first other than two times: once, when my car broke down I texted her for the roadside assistance number because she had the card number in her wallet, and the second time was to tell her I wouldn't be home one evening if she wanted to go spend some time with the dogs. Other than that, it is she who has called/texted me. Fortunately, I had been out with one friend all day and didn't even have my phone with me, and my partner told that friend the following day that I had called her (my partner) all the previous day. My friend knew that wasn't true, and told me what my partner said because she was so shocked that my partner would make that up. So why is she making up reasons to be angry? I have always been so accommodating, certainly too much so because apparently, although she needed so much financial and emotional support for her business for the past 4 years, my enabling her caused her to not stand on her own two feet and now she resents me for that. She is like a stranger right now, and I just want to have the best friend back that I could talk to about anything, not this irrational person who has taken to making up stories and being totally self absorbed (her latest statement to a friend who asked simply how she was: "I'm happy, that's all that matters isn't it? Now that I have to take care of myself, maybe I'll be more inspired to make things work in my business."). No mention of the affair (she thinks that friend doesn't know). And she hasn't been very inspired so far, because she didn't do any work at all last week and when she had the opportunity to make some money she turned it down. She then called me to complain that she had to get her business landlord to not cash her rent cheque because it would bounce. She was out of town since Friday and came back tonight and she has not been in contact. I assume she is at the OP's. I never knew she had it in her to be so callous.
"In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find, and continue to find, grounds for marriage." -- Robert Anderson