Thanks for the notes & encouragement HeyHey & Toni. I truly appreciate it.

I've not seen him since around the first of July. He's about 200 miles away right now. We were in contact until mid August when he was able to accomplish getting the tenants to pay him. I've not heard from him since. I was very much in love with him and that is what led me back to him after he was jailed. I went through a similar situation, without the physical abuse, that ended in February of 2001. I was used in a big way and very much played for the fool. They were both relatively short relationships but definitely inflicted a major degree of emotional pain.

I am to go and call the lawyer later this morning. I'm a nervous wreck about that and woke up thinking of it off and on all night long.

I don't have anyone close by to be a support group. The couple close friends that I had I have managed to lose contact with through my isolation in this depression. I recently e-mailed one of them at work just to tell her I missed her & loved her and haven't gotten a response at all.