Childhood best friend just ended relationship and blamed me. Mom died this year. Need outside perspective.

I have never been able to have "limited relationships." I am still not sure if this is good, bad, or neutral - (like eye color.)

Thing is with this person, she was the most un-limiited I thought I had. We do not do small talk, ever. I am thinking she might honestly just not understand the CPTSD experience, and that is ok. I know it is a very difficult experience to understand for other people, if it's even possible. I got a 'you have to get out of this' talk from her a couple weeks ago. I am slowly starting to just think maybe I underestimated her ability to understand my experience, and now it's overwhelmed her? We do not have the kinds of conversations that I posted. Ever.

Also, since I used to rage at her years and years ago, I have now become someone who kind of never says anything back to her. I believe her 'your typical excuse' line was referring to something I said in our 20s. I am sort of fogging out when I think about this, which usually means that it's true.

I also think it's very odd that I knew she would react negatively to me texting that to her. How did I know she would react negatively? She does not speak to me so harshly so it's not like I expected this to come from her........

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