Thank you for the responses Inky and saz26.

That site The Friendship Blog is pretty interesting. I’ve actually been searching for something like that for months and that never came up.

I do very much understand that her decision to cut contact was not about me/our friendship, but about her and her circumstances. After reading that, I felt a lot of the poison (good phrase for it!) just melt away and was able to -truly- forgive.

I am definitely feeling better now that it’s been a few days (though there is still an ache here and there) and both of your kind words have helped.

Thank you,
Terra