Pat in the Hat, I hear ya--this is really maddening!
Today I received a Facebook message from someone wanting tree work done asking why I wouldn't recommend a certain tree trimmer. I had put on a group that I wouldn't, but anyone wanting to know why would have to PM me as I wasn't posting the details on a group. So this woman PMed me and I took a good 30 or 40 minutes typing out the whole long sad frustrating story with the full orchestration and five part harmony. While I was typing I was thinking about that Stephen King story, you know, where the jerk neighbor's tree crushed the other guy's boathouse, 'cause on account of this jerk it could have happened to my garage. It turned out so good I was thinking of posting it here. So I proofread it and hit post. At the bottom of the post appeared the message "This person is not receiving messages from you now." I had noticed she had a couple of mutual friends but didn't see who. So I thought I'd contact one of them to tell her I did try to reply but something went wrong, so she would not think I just ignored her.
When I tried to go to her account to identify the two mutual friends, her account was GONE! If she did it on purpose, that was pretty rude, asking me a question and then removing her account like an hour and a half later before I could answer! If Facebook did it, I thought, well, I still have my reply, but when I went back to the conversation, my reply was GONE, with the notation "You cannot reply to this conversation."
So if she did this purposely, she's on my list, too!
Deep breath, in and out......Actually, Facebook could have lost her account (though I've never heard of them accidentally deleting ANY account), she could have deleted it, or she could have blocked me, but blocking me within an hour and a half of asking the question, before I had time to even see it, let alone type a word in reply? PRET-ty darn weird! I have NEVER been blocked by ANYONE on Facebook! It lets you know when one of your friends leaves and in every case it was because the person closed their own account!
See, what I'm thinking is this person spoke to someone who said something CONSIDERABLY worse than the reason the tree trimmer himself gave me, for not working for us, which was so minor as to be laughable! Then she just took their word for it and blocked me without even waiting to hear my side of it!
Maybe try not to let someone who has very little space in your life.... put you through so much emotional anguish. You have so many other things to give your energy to, perhaps this person doesn't deserve so much of it?