Recently this woman was diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer.
My boyfriend met with her to wish her well (part of some positive energy thing her therapy group recommended), and since then, she’s been texting and emailing him with updates on her treatments and how much her life sucks in general. She gets very angry if he doesn’t respond. The first time, he didn’t reply for two weeks. After that, he said he’s been giving her short replies because he doesn’t want to feel like a jerk.
I don’t know what to feel. I don’t like what his interactions with her seem to mean to HER. Yet she could be dying and isn’t it selfish to get upset over it? They were friends for years before they messed things up for each other and he almost lost me. Now the situation is just very complicated.
He’s told me he has no intention of hanging out with her or continuing friendship. He only wants to support her because this cancer is life-threatening, and if she dies, he doesn’t want regrets.
My question is, what should my part be? I’m so confused.
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