You could have stopped that text conversation after her first sentence by saying some thing like, Let me think about that, I'll get back to you when I have an answer.
I think you both like the drama.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss