Hi. So this is a bit of a complex situation. I had a friend who I was really close to and she asked me to be her boyfriend but I didn't know what I wanted at the time so I said I'm not sure what I really want in life and this friendship means too much to just turn it into a relationship. She said she'd wait and she's happy just being friends, I said that's okay but there's no guarantees, if she finds someone else that's fine, we're friends. So we'd been friends for 4 years now, (with one major trauma issue which affected both of us but we stayed friends) she still liked me and I was ready to actually be in a relationship with her because we were best friends and I'd grown to see her in a romantic sense (but that's besides the point). This summer we spoke less as I was struggling with that previous trauma. She felt she wasn't able to help so didn't contact to even so how I was but I think she was struggling herself with workload (although she didn't say this). We spoke a bit in the autumn, still good friends. But then when we were trying to organise something for one of our birthdays she originally said she was down and then suddenly said I'd like to get to know someone else. I can't have you in my life after feeling how I felt. That was like a dagger to my heart losing my best friend. We had a call that night and she said "this is it". We used to talk all the time but all of sudden she went so cold, I don't know what's happened. Since then, I've been broken and emotional and we spoke a little but she wanted to end it forever and ended up blocking. My best-friend, one of the kindest and most caring people I know just did that so cold-heartedly and it hurts me every single day.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm really struggling on a mental health level. I don't understand how someone as caring as her could do this to me when she was happy being friends. My only thought is maybe she's struggling with her mental health and is pushing me away, like I've only ever looked out for her and helped her whenever I can (as she would do the same) but she has done this to me. Can someone please try to help and how do I move on from this?