Let me add that my W, many years after cutting off these friends of hers, did look them up on the social media outlets and I could see a process of regret started, but got cut off right away to avoid the pain and questions of "what if" and "did I make a mistake?", etc....
She seems to be processing things differently now, so maybe MLC is re-wiring her brain as it maybe should have been back growing up...
Just speculation, of course.
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm