From atop the world
I see you and look down
with such disdain.
You waste away
on slipping ground.
Poison oozes from your pores
as subtly as fireflies in the night sky.
Neediness strangles everyone you touch.
We're watching,
but no one can force you;
remove the mask.
Think about bridges you're burning.
It's too late to fight my plight.
I hope your darkness returns to light.
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Hugs and looks worried :(
I tried to be compassionate, and she repaid me by calling me at all hours of the day and night, and trying to engage me in the same conversations over and over again. When I tried to resist, she'd threaten to kill herself.
To make matters worse, she was a co-worker, and my boss wanted to move her office closer to mine so that I "could keep an eye on her".
I ended up having to completely end the friendship, and I know she really never understood what trying to be her friend cost me.
I had a similar friend. She was an emotional vampire. I tried to help her as much as I could but ended up severing contact when my oldest son died. Three days after his death, she called me hysterical, because I hadn't emailed her back, and said she'd just taken all of the pills in her medicine cabinet. I hung up on her, called her husband, saw that she was taken care of and then never contacted her again.
That must have felt like a slap in the face, for her to be so insensitive to your own crisis.
That's the problem with these "friendships"; they're so one-sided and there never seems to be a way to balance the scale. Their neediness consumes them and everyone around them.
I ended up in the employee assistance program at work because it got to the point where I was in tears just driving in. They told me my boss was nuts for making it my problem, and they called him to tell him so. She ended up getting fired soon after (for something else), and although I felt bad about it, I was relieved.
Needless to say, I have no sympathy for those who use that as a tool of manipulation (and the utmost sympathy for those who are genuinely in that state, since I've been there).
Thank you, both of you. It was many years ago and I've made my peace with both tragedies.