Thank you for this article! I was so buried in this persons needy world that I know the same 3 stories verbatim. It is so sad that I was not able to break away sooner but it just got to the point where I just couldn't do it anymore. I was so relieved when I severed the relationship with her. I was way too available and I knew it! Even when I had other things to do she always found a way to absorb my energy when I had somewhere else to be. Funny thing about this person, she wasn't very nice to a lot of people but when she needed the trash bin (my ear) she used the most desperate behavior to get my sympathy to go and have a therapy session at happy hour. Those two years I did that were the longest and wasted years of my life (hindsight).
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Thank you for this article! I was so buried in this persons needy world that I know the same 3 stories verbatim. It is so sad that I was not able to break away sooner but it just got to the point where I just couldn't do it anymore. I was so relieved when I severed the relationship with her. I was way too available and I knew it! Even when I had other things to do she always found a way to absorb my energy when I had somewhere else to be. Funny thing about this person, she wasn't very nice to a lot of people but when she needed the trash bin (my ear) she used the most desperate behavior to get my sympathy to go and have a therapy session at happy hour. Those two years I did that were the longest and wasted years of my life (hindsight).