This is a slightly mad piggy-in-the-middle situation I desperately need help with. Who do I believe?
So have a good working relationship with friends A and B, who I introduced my neighbour C to. C, A and B also start working and socialising together in a mutually supportive way, I am happy, we are all good pals running own businesses and scratching one another's backs.
Fast forward a few months and C starts to express dissatisfaction and unhappiness with A and B, but shares her feelings with me and others, not A and B themselves. I encourage her to take her complaints directly to them in order to resolve matters. C doesn't do this but continues talking about it to anyone who will listen, I and others alert A to the situation. A approaches C who gives a very different account of the reasons for her unhappiness than previously aired everywhere. C then severs a couple of major ties with A and B but ostensibly they all remain friends - except A and B withdraw support for C's business, slowly but very surely. C, although it is far from a live issue for her anymore, continues to complain to her friends and customers about A and B's business and of course this works its way back to A and B.
B's version of events kick off with her confronting C and asking her not to say damaging things about A and B's business, C at first denies it and then says it all started with me - which is a pack of lies - C goes on to try and implicate other people and when B was not convinced, C burst into tears and wailed 'my life is crap' or some such thing, says some things about me that I consider to be unkind, and they part company.
C volunteered her own side of the story which started with B telling her that I had passed on information about her making defamatory remarks about the business - none of it has anything to do with me. Don't understand why I have been dragged into it at all?
So, I know C is lying because have heard her making malicious comments about A and B. Does it follow that she is lying about everything else, and should I trust B's account? Am enmeshed personally and professionally with all 3 of these people, can't just disentangle myself entirely but am troubled by all this and don't understand why I got dragged into it, or know how far I can trust any of them?