Dear Sora:

Reads to me that you did the right thing, telling her that the two of you shouldn’t be friends anymore because

1. It is better for you because of “the unanimous opinion of many of (your) closer friends and counselor that (you) should stop hanging out with her as she might be a bad influence”, an opinion that you agree with (don’t you?)

2. It is better for  her because “she was unhappy with (you) rejecting to go out with her most of the time”. Sometimes it is better to choose all-or-nothing over “most of the time”- she will not feel badly every time you reject her, but instead she feels badly only once (you ending the friendship and keeping it in the past, not going back and forth).

-I hope you feel better soon about “Letting Go of a Friend”, and focus on the friends you do appreciate as good influences in your life.

anita