Thank you for your response... my friendship is with a woman, just best friends type.. she has a hubby...

I often question, which of us has the "mental illness"...

I think that she would have to change a great deal before I would allow the friendship again.. but mircles do happen..

It losing a part of my family.... it is for me exactly like "death" of a loved one..

I know that others do not understand how I could be that "dramatic". however the person we think that we love,,, sometimes is only a part of an illusion.. and facing that is as shocking as the loss of the friendship.