A bad ending to a good friendship: Are there second chances?
I know this is long but please bare with me as context matters.
I have this friend whom I really got along with pretty well and while i do/did care about her and enjoyed the time we spent together, unfortunately she is an extremely unreliable person, not to mention that some things about her behavior seem insicnere. Like we planned on traveling together for 3 years now and she told me she didnt have the time or money, then within 2 or 3 month intervals i find out she has been to california (she lives in new york and i live in California) and didnt tell me, that she went to south america 3 months later, canada a month later, several European countries 6 months later and so on. Her sister also told me that she did get 10 grands from her parents, even though she’s been repeatedly complaining to me how she doesnt have the money. I tried not ot let it bother me, but it did bother me, and i confronted her. First politely and when she just gave me some polite but dismissive answer of the "what’s the big deal" type, my confrontation of the issue became one of making cynical remarks. I was just so pi$$ed that she would repeatedly bs me that she didnt have time for me, but go to all these countries.
To make matters worse, my mom passed away a short while ago and not only did my friend, whom i felt close to, not call me or otherwise contact me to express her condolences. It really bothered me that such a good friend who is so close to her family and understands how devestating such a loss can be would ignore me. This summer we planned a vacation and it looked like it was about to come true until she flaked out on my last minute and before i could even say anything, she unfriended me on facebook and send me an email ending our friendship telling me she couldn’t take it anymore, that she felt really bad for my loss but that it wasnt "her problem" and that i should go see a shrink. She then said she would never answer my calls again.
I called her and tried to work it out, to at least talk to her in person – email and text felt so wrong and i felt we had been such good friends we owed more to each other, and since i do care about our friendship i really wanted to work things out. I plead with her to please talk about it in person, that this wasnt right, but she never responded to me again.
I have come to accept it but i am hurt and i cannot get the circumstances of how it ended out of my head,. Who says to someone who lost their mother "go see a shrink, i cannot help you"? Or ends a friendship over text? I feel betrayed and hurt. It has been 6 months and of course she never contacted me. It is like i never existed. How can she do that especially given that SHE has been such a miserable friend? and why not trying to talk it out? Why didnt she at least call me after the anger settled? Why over text? Why cutting me off like that as if i had done something horrible to her? The irony is that her "about me" section on facebook reads "I am the best friend anyone can have".