Reply #65: Smoking pot "24/7" is bad enough, cheating's a lot worse, but...

[Seabiscuit]

the really scary part is found in your words: "She wants nothing to do with following any practice that she doesn't like. She has abandoned anyone who disagrees with her on anything, or questions her. I am just about the only person who tolerates her."

In my experience, you can't change people. Either they change themselves or you accept them as they are. I would never go back to someone I left for the reasons you stated. Addiction, cheating, and abandoning anyone who disagrees with or questions her would amount to "three strikes, you're out" to me.

Accepting her back as she currently is would seem to me like enabling her problems. Things would just pick up where they left off and continue going downhill.

Life is too short to suffer along with someone with those kinds of problems. There are a lot of healthier fish in the sea.

Best of luck to you.