Ever Lose A Friend Over Something Stupid? I Did Today

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Nothing selfish at all. Besides, something I've learned from experience (and I do not by any means consider myself jaded or cynical) is that things are frequently not as they appear, especially over the internet. What I mean is, it seem crystal-clear to you from your past correspondance with this woman that she is a basically harmless, well-intentioned person who just has the misfortune of being in a bad marriage. But really, over the internet, you know nothing for sure. In fact, in the case of this woman, the only thing you do know for sure is that you've been told to stay away, which, painful as it is to hear, may be doing you a favor in more ways than one. Your situation might be far, far worse if this woman were trying to get you involved in helping her, because you could be getting drawn into a situation dangerous to yourself, where it might not even be just the husband who was dangerous. What I'm saying is, do not assume that the nice interactions you had in the beginning represent this woman's "true" nature any more than the paranoid reaction she had later on, and sometimes a paranoid person can be a dangerous person. In any case, you're doing the right thing, which is in fact the only option available to you in these circumstances.