Dear Kelsi:

I think that your “weird sense of relief” is an indication that you made the right decision regarding this former childhood friend.

You wrote: “If she isn’t willing to at least understand my side.. then the friendship doesn’t seem worth it to me anymore.

I add, using the same sentence structure: If “she is intentionally going out of her way to HURT ME”, then there is no friendship.

When a person is intentionally trying to hurt another, the hurting person is not friendly- she is hostile, and she is not a friend- she is an enemy (an enemy is a person or group of people who intend to hurt another party, then plans to do so, then execute the plan, all which she did).

And so, best indeed cut off an enemy.

anita