My best friend is moving on.
Category: Just Blogging
Posted: Jun 30, 2008 06:25 am
(posted by: Rachel)
Most likely to succeed, wanted to be an attorney when we were in HS, Danced for yrs, and was in choir with me, carried a 4.0 all though school was "that smart girl" beautiful in and out and with a heart of gold that would do anything for any one.
My BFF has been struggling with an addiction problem for some time. This past week she made some pretty big decisions to try and get her life back in order. So I have spent the majority of my time helping her pack up her belongings and her daughters and getting them ready to move half way across the country. In hopes that said BFF will be able to start the recovery process again with a clean slate in a new community. It was sad to see her go but I really think it will be the best thing for her. She has always been the do it your self kinda gal.... We'll recovery isn't something you can do on your own. and for some reason the support she got from friends and family here just wasn't what she needed. Its a whole manipulating thing with addicts she knew how to push our buttons to suit her. Where she is going she will have no one to fall back on... no one to manipulate, no one to feel sorry for her. I think that will push her to only do whats right. she has done it before. and coming back to this city proved to be a bad move, to much here, bad ppl that still haven't gotten there crap together and if you are near that big obyss its more then likely that you'll fall right back in.
I had done all but given up hope on her the last time I spoke with her before this verdict of moving out of state to try and start a new... the last convo was her doing her ....whining thing and me yelling at her and saying I was fed up, and that she was nearly 30 and for petes sake should shouldn't need "HELP" any more... I mean how many times can one possibly need rescued? Then I Heard through the vine that she was audi in a matter of days so I called to see if she needed help with the baby, or with moving things...and wouldn't you know she did:) I was so glad that I called her. I would have hated not getting to spend those last few days with her. plus when she's with me I know shes safe and she is clean and sober! YAY.
So I put my BFF on a bus destined for the corn fields of the great plains, But not before we loaded my basement with her things, and set her daughter up with a room at her grandmas house. She will be reunited with her daughter soon...she just needed some time to get settled a little time to get her brain together. That was my weekend in a nut shell.
I'm proud of my BFF! and I have faith that she will beat this addiction thing once and for all. She might just have to be far away from what she knows to do so!
