Personally, and the more I even think about her or him, I find his useful tool Lora a sad and pretty shallow and cringe worthy figure. There’s a big difference between “being a friend” who just listens and "is there" for you when you need someone ____and what she is. She's excusing and willfully enabling depraved and loathsome behavior. She’s his reliable doormat, his ‘go to’ girl when no one else will cater to his whims and wants. She willingly shells out her $$$ to buy for him, uses her car to chauffeur his tired grifting ass around, and he’s more than willing to take everything he can from her. He sees her as easy, a mark for whom he can whistle and she'll come running.
Good gawwd'... Does she look at that hideous little squirt and think: "That's the best I can do." If she does, then love isn't just blind, it's deaf and dumb.
He sees her a a useful tool, a Kleenex to be used when needed and then thrown aside, and she seems to accept that. That’s not being a friend. That’s being needy, desperate and enabling, and if that’s what she wants to be and do with her time and life, it’s somewhat sad, but more power to her because that’s what she deserves. A real friend isn't afraid to tell you the truth. A real friend would feel obligated to do it, but in this case anyone who confronts the little con artist with the truth is discarded and shunned, whether in person or online.
She's already like any abused spouse who thinks if she just enables more, works harder, gives more that he'll change. But the con, the abuser just continues to take, to abuse and sees her as an easy mark.
Perhaps she thinks, as too many women do when dealing with abusive men, "He'll change' if I just hang on, if I'm there when he wants me to be there." Heh! ___Waiting for that soul sucking little con artist to change is like waiting for the sun to come up in the West. It's an exercise in futility and a waste of life and energy.
And ___ Truth!