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Old 02-03-2017, 06:55 AM #1
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Frown Haaalp, Housemate/bff went off the rails!

Hi everyone. I’m new here and in desperation for some advice.

Quick background - I live with one of my best friends in her house, We know that she has a neurological condition but it has been almost 7 years and no firm diagnosis and very rude and uncaring doctors imo. From all our research and speaking to medical professional friends, we both feel she has MS or ALS and if not something along those lines. It's obviously frustrating for her to have her whole life upended and to not know for sure what the problem is. It's beyond difficult to watch my friend hurting and not be able to do anything. She has one of the sweetest hearts ever and I just want her to be happy. argh.

She has had mood swings before but never to this level and I'm a bit more concerned than normal. We butt heads sometimes strictly to personality differences, but she went OFF tonight.........Over me clearly and calmly saying "ok, I’ll see you in a bit" and shutting my door. (She was running an errand real quick and was starting to get amped up)
Game on apparently! I "slammed the door in her face when she was trying to tell me something" and BOOM, it was a lot of very naughty words which lead to A ton of texts basically:
kicking me out,
our almost 15 year friendship is over,
I am ungrateful,
I take advantage of everything,
no one cares about her and no one will help her, etc....
All exaggerated and I obviously love her to death or I wouldn’t be here at 1am pleading for help...we do a lot for each other but I didn’t dare say that, I know better when she is in "ranting mode" I am the target no matter what. I’m in the way, I’m not helping, I’m ignoring her, and I’m in her face, just... yeah.
Then it was "I have no one, I want to die." I know that is not in any way true, she’s thrown that out before and I’ve never seen any reason that she’s actually in that mindset. Trust me, I would be calling everyone and making moves if needed, I don’t play with stuff like that but I don’t feel it’s necessary at the moment. I’m certainly not dismissing it outright either though....

Like I said, some of that has happened before, she took it to a new level with kicking me out though and then went one higher when she came home, grabbed some food, clothes and our dog and bailed. I asked if she was taking the dog and she screamed the whole way out "what do you care? She’s not your dog. You're not my friend. *Lots of naughty words and one in particular she KNOWS I hate so that was on purpose* I don’t ever want to see you again, get out of my house." *Slams door*

W.T.H do I do?

I feel like I shouldn’t take most of that serious, but that was a new one. I don’t care about moving, I have somewhere to go if I have to if that’s what she needs. I will be heartbroken if she really wants to end our friendship but again, if that’s her choice, I will tearfully accept it. I am more concerned about her health and mindset, at the moment and especially if I do move out. Will she thrive? Will she go into a funk and then that statement does turn scary? How is she going to be able to do all the things I do around here? ahhhhh


So, I guess my question for the moment is- how do I handle this particular situation? I’ve been going with not engaging and trying to keep my voice neutral and quiet-ish (which is SO hard because I’m Italian ha) I feel like part of this is she is in Martyr mode and just wants me to kiss butt and say it’s all my fault and you were right... uhh, no. I empathize that a lot of this is not her fault and she has limited control over it, but there’s a point.... right?
Like, Do I take her kicking me out seriously or wait and see how she is tomorrow or the next day? What is the best approach to get her to listen and realize she can’t blame me for her ALL frustrations? I’m sure I contribute to some of them but I have tried and tried to have calm conversations about how to communicate better and make things run smoother and it backfires every time. She gets all pist and storms off and there is no accountability or apology on her part. Zero.

She just texted that they’re sleeping in the car but at least she let me now she’s safe. I had texted and said, "I love you and let’s talk when things are calmer about if you really want me to move out or not. If so I will cry a lot but I’ll start making arrangements. I won’t text you anymore right now; we need some space obviously but pls just keep in touch."
To which she just went off and told me to get out again and that she would be at home if anyone gave a ---- about her wellbeing...
smh.... like I said, haaaaalp.
ty and sorry for the long post
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Old 02-04-2017, 11:51 AM #2
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You really are in quite a predicament . BTW: My Dad Italian; my Mom; Lithuanian. So you know the mix where I come from.

Not sure what to write; the only thing I can come up with at this time would be to give her the space she obviously needs. Not sure whether you are from US or a different country. There are the Comfort Inns which could give you a temporary place to stay; like for a few days or a week.

This cooling off period will hopefully work for the better in both your cases. Obviously, without wanting to admit, she needs someone who understands her physical, as well as emotional problems.

Please keep in touch as to what is developing in this relationship.


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she apologized profusely when she came out of it and came home the next day. Ive been careful and just letting her get back to herself but I'm still on edge. I'm almost feeling like i've waited too long to say anything but I also know that if she wasn't herself and I was mad, there was no point in even having the conversation.... so now, Does she think all is well? Did I sahoot myself in the foot and have to wait for another incident?
Ahhh! I'm just tired and I want my friend to be ok.

Thankyou for the response, I really appreciate it and I will keep updating.




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You really are in quite a predicament . BTW: My Dad Italian; my Mom; Lithuanian. So you know the mix where I come from.

Not sure what to write; the only thing I can come up with at this time would be to give her the space she obviously needs. Not sure whether you are from US or a different country. There are the Comfort Inns which could give you a temporary place to stay; like for a few days or a week.

This cooling off period will hopefully work for the better in both your cases. Obviously, without wanting to admit, she needs someone who understands her physical, as well as emotional problems.

Please keep in touch as to what is developing in this relationship.


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