I am in a very embarrassing situation. My husband attacked me physically in March and has been emotionally abusing me as well - very manipulative, denial, hurtful. I contacted my son's hockey coach, whom I always thought was a good friend, for support because he is an attorney who has worked with abuse victims for up to 20 years. I was looking for understanding. I told other clinicians as well of course and am working with a dv advocate. Anyway, the coach's stance was that he would always be concerned about my safety but didn't want to know about my personal life - maybe conflict of interest or just didn't want to get involved. I was depressed and perhaps manic as well. I kept sharing more and more info with him over email - much of it pretty shocking and classic batterer manipulation. He told me to stop but I later told him more on a day I was feeling extremely depressed. He then wrote me a very scathing letter. I just was looking for some empathy but just couldn't control my impulses and kept harassing him, looking for that empathy/validation. I'm so embarrassed. I have to see him often. Ugh. What a huge mistake. We sort of agreed to move on and let it go last week, but I know he'll always think I'm crazy. And I'm hurt and disappointed cuz I thought he was a friend. Anyone do something long-term foolish like this before?