Letters to the Editor
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Which would you rather regret?
You can relieve yourself of a burden, and come across as being mean and not as unsupportive as you *could* have been. Or you can get back into what seems to be a bad relationship and take a chance on feeling like a complete fool when-and-if she does it again.
I have a personal prejudice when it comes to this sort of thing, having been assured by a supposedly-recovering substance abuser that he was one of the (according to him) 5% of people who manage to kick an opiate habit. I was naive. And I had been socially-conditioned to be tolerant and liberal about such things. NO MORE! Granted, I may have swung a tad too far to the other side of things, but I feel that self-preservation trumps all other considerations.
This is the voice of experience speaking: You have just as much right to be selfish in your desire to be rid of her as she had a right to be selfish and do what she did to you. Don't let ANYONE "guilt" you into wearing an albatross necklace--because that's what substance abusers usually are: heavy anchors that will only drag you down, if you don't free yourself of them in time.