Hi Puppy, yes that was one explanation. But, the next day after she accused me of playing the 'poor ol me' game, she calls and tells me that I should go to Vegas. She came to the conclusion that if I don't go because of her, she'll look bad. If I do go, she knows that I will be talking with her friends. Either way she's going to be stressed because she cares too much what other people think. The bottom line is, many of her friends call me anyway--don't need to go to Vegas for that. Reason I'm close with her friends is that over the years she wanted to socialize with her friends and didn't care much for mine.