My co worker encouraged me to bond with her two kids six years ago and I looked after them for her in work. She and I became friends and she used to send me texts about what the kids were up to and used to say her and they loved me all the time. The children see me as an auntie also and still do.
Yet now they are older, my colleague won't even speak to me or come and say hello. She is lovely to everyone else but me (Other examples are for a different thread) and for the first time in six years, hasn't brought the kids in to come and see me so I am assuming this is now it. She knows I care and that she encouraged a bond between us all. I am so hurt and finding it hard not to tell her what I think as I do feel she has used me and you shouldn't play with peoples hearts like that. She has made it clear she is done and finished with me as are her children and that kills me inside. There isn't worth me saying anything as she doesn't care about me. I guess all I can do is quit my job. I feel so deeply sad and wonder how I am meant to keep strong? Some have suggested she is jealous but in that case she shouldn't have encouraged it for so many years in the first place. I then end up feeling guilty although I know I have never tried to replace her or any rubbish like that. All I did was care for them like family as she wanted and now have to deal with this pain. It seems so undeserved.