I had a friend today text me asking if she can stay due to having relationship problems and wants to break up with her fiance. He sounds controlling, but not to a point where she suspects she would be in danger if she were to leave. She also mentioned her cat, but I do not want a cat living with me. I don't do well with pets and having their hair get all over the place. That is part of why I don't have a pet myself.

I just told her she can stay here and there, but I can't offer anything permanent. I hope I dealt with it ok, because I want to be supportive and not have our friendship break up. One of the reasons I explained to her was that my schedule is not really conducive to having people stay since there's a lot of time during the week where I am not home. Also, I like to have my own space, but I didn't really get into that. I don't even know if I had done the right thing by saying she can stay here and there, because sometimes that leads to people staying longer.

She has a mother and sisters, so I suggested that she stays there. She said, "they don't have much room for me there." But that is where she was residing before moving in with the fiance.

I'm sure it took a lot out of her to ask me since she's really stuck. Did I deal with this ok? I want to be able to help out, but I didn't want to be in a situation where I am not firm enough in the beginning and it ends up hurting her more later.