People who need people are quite different from people who USE people. I hold the latter in utter contempt…disdain.
Recently, the veil has been lifted from my eyes only to see someone I thought to be a good friend as just that – a user.
I opened my home to her for about nine months when she left her husband. Due to her employment situation, her contribution towards rent, utilities, and food was sporadic at best. The burden of housing and feeding another adult took its toll on my emotions and wallet so she had to go. She moved in with another friend, where she resides today, a year or so later, and her job situation has not improved.
I will not go into detail but I have noticed a pattern of behavior with this woman and must now put some distance between us. I can’t say that I wasn’t warned by a more than a few people who saw it long before I did. I wanted to give her the benefit of doubt. I didn’t want to believe that to be true about her…but it is.
To say I am disappointed is an understatement. But I’m a big girl so I can handle it no matter how hard.
In the words of the late Teddy Pendergrass…
“I think we need to let it gooooo…..”
