Friends,
What is it that causes a person to remember only the negative things about someone to the exclusion of the good things?
Being told that the only things a person talked about was their illness, pain, and traumatic experiences when in fact they often talked about happy things and positive things.
For example: when asked, "But what about all the happy experiences?" they reply:
"Frankly, I don't remember ANY!"
Is this some kind of mental illness when people focus only on the bad?
I have just lost another friend, who has told me she is sick and tired of hearing negative stuff from me, when this is not true. I have shared many fun experiences with this person, and I don't understand why she would say this.
It is true that I have confided in her about my grief over my marriage, and other things which I did not feel able to talk about with others, but I was there to support HER when she was going through a nasty divorce in 2002.
I feel so hurt by this and am trying to understand.
AF