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Originally Posted by jerrymichele
Dwayne a true friend will not let you just sit there and hang on. What I would do is just leave the door open for her. In the mean time if she does come back around you need to set up boundaries for yourself. If she doesn't come back around then she wasn't a friend to begin with. True friends will not hurt each other.
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Thanks, jerrymichele. Would you have any suggestions about setting up boundaries? That's something that I'm not very good at doing. I know one thing that I done wrong. Just about everything that I done revolved around her. I'm not saying that she expected that, I don't think she did. It's just that I got so wrapped up in wanting to be with her. I know we were just friends, but that's something that's hard to come by for me. Especially female friends.
I wanted to do things with her so much that I paid for most everything when we went out to eat, the movies, etc. I knew that she didn't have any money. It took a while to get her disability started. But although it was my idea to do these things and knowing she didn't have any money, I began to get resentments for being the one who payed. I know that's a contradiction, but that's how I felt. I never discussed these feelings with her because I didn't know how to approach it. As a result of it building up, it led to me saying something kind of insensitive to her. And she was the one who was hurt.
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