Weird thing happened yesterday. She has been so harsh about getting her stuff from here and has been so mean, but yesterday she called to say she'd spoken to her old best friend that she'd lost contact with. She was very hurt because the friend told my partner she was too hiigh maintenance to be friends with. My partner then proceeded to say how selfish this friend was and how the friend would look around one day to find she has no one left. She couldn't get over how badly this friend had spoken to her. All the while I'm listening and adding pointed passive/aggressive comments about how the friend likely doesn't want a mirror put up to her and prefers to surround herself with people that say what she wants to hear,that she needs therapy but won't get it because it requires work instead of just trading in old friends for new, that people who say such nasty things are really just not happy with themsleves, etc. She saw no parallels whatsoever. I was happy (somewhat) that she called me to confide in me instead of to get something, but half of me wondered why she hadn't called the OP? She told me that I could appreciate the story because I know the history. She said she is taking an inventory of her friends to see who is still her friend...Is she losing it? Most people are angry with her for how she has handled this situation and me.
"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