Hi Ian: Why don't you wait until you get back from Australia and then take a fresh look at how you feel about the friendship with Erin then. Sometimes we jump to a decision to bring something to an end just to do something/anything, even though it is not really the right decision for us or that we really want to make. That drive to take some definitive action, even if it is self-defeating and not what we want to do, is part of the depression; go on your trip and then decide when you come back. You have nothing to lose this way, and everything to gain. Best regards.

<font color=blue>HI FROM PEANUT :-)</font color=blue>