my friend's boyfriend suffers from severe depression made worse by his drinking heavily. when he gets like that he is unkind to my friend, and sometimes leaves her on her own in town with nowhere to stay and stuff like that, he self harms, sometimes in front of her, and regularly finishes with her. Every time this happens she is distraught, and I spend ages listening to her and talking it through with her as any good friend would. I gave her a spare key to my house in case he ever left her with nowhere to go, and have picked her up in the midddle of the night and stuff. But then a day or 2 later she gets back together with him, they are happy for a few days, then he finishes with her again and it all starts over.The last time they finished she assured me it was for good, and now I feel like a fool because I was saying how happy I was she could now move on, it was for the best, etc. and now they're back together! To be honest I'm losing a lot of sympathy, am I a bad friend?
2006-09-08
23:27:20
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