Hope you got the restraining order... the sooner the better. And the locks do need to be changed. These are 2 things you can do right now to protect yourself. You must have had major stress going on during this whole time. When I get stressed like that, I head here and start writing or chatting to keep my support network up.

I understand about the family thing... mine is the same way. They live in a different world than I do and sometimes see things from a neat little boxed in suburb and can't imagine having to deal with a situation like yours.

I'm sorry the friendship had to end, better to know than to not know.

Let us here how you are doing. We are here for you.