So I guess that ends that

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I’d never had a best friend until I met her a few years ago but I also can’t be everything to someone. Since she recovered from breast cancer, she refused to even socialize with anyone else except going out to breakfast with her parents. She just wanted to hide in her dark basement apartment with her pet guinea pig and avoid the world. It got so bad to the point where she even wanted me to drive her places instead of her driving. Even when my ankle was broken!!! She would never accept my invitations to come to the support groups my nonprofit runs (until I basically made it a condition of our friendship kind of for her own good...and even then I had to drive her there), and would never come to any social event I invited her to. Even a small party at someone’s house where everyone there would be someone she’d at least met before was met with a no. But if I had to turn down something she wanted to do, due to a family issue or my own illness - she would be nasty. After that happening again this week, I decided I was done. I told her I had no more room in my life for her since she wasn’t being a good friend. I was done being taken advantage of and done with her expecting me to give 100% and her to give nothing. She ended up admitting she was quite content with her guinea pig being her only friend so I guess that is that. I can’t have unhealthy people in my life.