Free falling story

Close friends, family, people you care about...all share one very important thing...love. Love is forever...no matter what.
That said...it is harder than anyone can imagine when you see someone make really stupid choices. It's so hard to see them free fall into their impending disaster. Nothing can prepare a girl for that. Nothing.
I have experienced it in a general way before...someone I knew. Someone I cared about. But never a confidante. The pain is indescribable.
I had to walk away...and honestly...ball my eyes out. It is a death in the worst way...when someone chooses the path to destroy themselves.
Hours and hours we spent in talks, trust growing, I really thought it would not end...that it could not end. Then I heard the first lie my dear one told about ME. Others followed and soon noone was exempt from the poisonous venom coming from a once sanctified mouth.
All I can do is love from a distance, and pray in earnest.
My.love.will.not.end.ever.but.I.refuse.to.watch.someone.self.destruct.
I do not have the strength to endure that pain daily, or even very often.
I must pray long and hard before meetings with the now time bomb.
Free falling never ever ends well....when you cut off your parachute.