I can respect Cyndi's desire to spend lots of time with her boyfriend. I can even respect her desire to spend more time with her boyfriend than her other friends. But that's where my respect for her decisions end. From what you've told us, Cyndi is still interested in being your friend, and still wants to spend time with you, but her boyfriend is stopping her. At this point in her life, she respects her boyfriend's decisions so much that she stops acting on her own free will. That's certainly not a good way to do things. She allowing her boyfriend to abuse her devotion to supplant her desires with his own. But that's not to say she doesn't care about you anymore. She's just confused and overcome with emotions that are new and strange to her. She sees her boyfriend as the endgame for her life, when in reality, he probably won't even be in her life in a decade, or even as little as a few years from now. They're both too young and inexperienced with relationships to be able to predict where this relationship will end. They also lack the maturity to keep the relationship healthy; its already become toxic, and is unlikely to get any better. She's not gone, she's lost. I don't hold any resentment towards the boyfriend. He is incidental. If Cyndi were more mature, or more open to criticisms of her action, she would not be in this situation, regardless of her boyfriend's wishes. The fact that she so easily caved to her boyfriend's unreasonable demands is more of an indictment of her than her boyfriend. Were Cyndi behaving maturely, she would have ignored his requests and, if need be, terminated the relationship when it became clear that he was not mature enough to be in one. So no, don't be mad at the boyfriend, although I don't see anyone really saying anything about him, so that's good. It'd be a shame if the frustration and disappointment was misdirected, because if it were, and no one faulted Cyndi, then when the boyfriend went away, Cyndi would just repeat this with another boyfriend, or something else.