"a friend in need"

i met jersey girl on an internet dating site while herself and i were on one of our breaks.
we struck up an internet friendship and continued to keep in touch on odd occasions.
about six months ago, herself had decided i was not worth the emotional stress i caused and had assured me she would never speak to me again. she ignored all my pleas for weeks, i was convinced we were done!
jersey girl and i started to internet flirt, which progressed to phone flirt and eventually...jersey girl came up to scotland for the weekend. now, jg and myself were highly compatible, she is a lovely woman, we had a wonderful time together, we enjoy the same music, laugh at the same jokes...as comfortable as a pair of old slippers.i would hesitate to deny... a mutual spark of attraction, but...
i was still hopelessly in love with my muse and jersey girl was still swinging on the rebound pendulum. to cut a long story short, herself decided to re enter my life about that time and i decided that perhaps i should take a step back from my friendship with jersey girl. until ....

jersey girl phoned me, one evening, a couple of days ago. she was very unhappy, it appears she had fallen in love shortly after the last time we were in contact.she had declined to paddle in the shallows and joyfully leaped into the deep waters of real love. quite a few months of blissful amore, jg feeling happy and content, dreaming of happily ever after, when...
the dream shattered.
jg needed someone to talk to, someone to listen, someone to care that she was hurting. she needed to rage and vent and i was the chosen receptacle for her outpouring. we live quite a distance apart and i have never met any of the crowd she socializes with... i am an outsider, unbiased and available.

interesting...the way life works. here i am in mourning for my recently ended relationship and what does the universe send me? why..someone with a similar problem. i hope and pray that somehow jersey girl and her love will put things back together, decide to try again and find success. she has not had an altogether easy life and she deserves a little happiness. in the mean time, i am an ear at the end of a phone line, i listen with sympathy and advise when asked.

jersey girl keeps my phone ringing and my brain occupied, she is indeed 'a friend in need'.