Unbelievable; I know I’m not going over there. Do I / should I respond?
You already know the answer. Don't respond. Don't entertain her attempts to keep you attached--because that's all this is. The longer you allow yourself (and I use that wording purposefully--because you ARE allowing it) to be kept on the hook as a nice, safe, fallback plan and source of cake, the longer (and quite possibly worse) things will get.
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I know many LBS might hate this; but it has to be so hard for a human to go through such emotional ups and downs.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with feeling empathy for another human being, no matter what they have done to you or anyone else. Don't allow your empathy to do you harm, though
