Thanks for sharing this. Sorry you went through all that. This gives me hope in the sense that the bad feelings won't last. Right now those bad feelings are very intense though.

I guess this is a situation where only time will heal, plus I do have a job, so maybe just focusing on that. I keep thinking how all of that money could have gone towards a necessity, rather than helping out a friend who is in a financial crisis based on his excessive overspending. I just wasn't thinking clearly and have been rapid cycling on top of it all.