First, I think you handled yourself good and appropriately with your wife and the friend. Good job!
I think it's typical for a WAW to do these things. They don't want anything around that reminds them of us, or the associated unhappy feelings. Don't try to read into it, and don't try to analyze! Their minds are spinning, probably, and they have a lot of crazy emotions too! Maybe some WAW here could chime in on this, but, I think they have a lot of baggage to deal with too!
25 said that you can 'choose' to feel differently, and you can start that by 'thinking' differently. We need to realize that nothing, and I mean nothing good is going to happen for us if we don't start choosing to feel differently and start thinking differently. We need to see, finally, that what we've been doing is not working! "Where the head goes...the heart will follow". It's never too late to start doing what's right! Let's start NOW!
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.