2am is an interesting time to get phone calls. Especially when its an upset friend who can’t understand why her exboyfriend won’t help resolve the situation. Unable to appreciate that his petulant responses to her are also a sign of a person who can’t deal with with the situation either. And because she’s sick and tired of fighting one illness after another, she’s done with every emotional battle she plays not only with him but with her cancer, her child, her parents, her friends, everything.

But, because of his petulant complaints she feels that she is “stressing me out” by dragging me in and won’t be talking to me anymore. Over reacting to his words, I feel. It’s a bad situation on both sides. I feel sad that they both are hurting, and I wish I could do something to make it better. But I can’t.

She wasn’t stressing me out. Neither was he. They both made me sad, because I felt that they weren’t handling the situation very well. But you can’t make people deal with things, you can only be there and help them when they ask for it.

And now, supposedly, I’m out of the loop. Well, we’ll see what happens. All I can do is pray for them both and hope for the best.

Sometimes, loving your friends is a very difficult thing.

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