I read a long thread I wrote ages ago on a different forum.

Well, I didn't get all the way to the end of it before getting sick to my stomach watching my descent into madness. I lost my sanity in the breakup with a pathological liar. I ended up being hospitalized for 3 or 4 weeks.

I still remember the betrayal I felt when I realized that the stories he had told me of his personal history were all made up. I can see how i overintellectualized everything and did not take the good advise I got which was to extricate myself as quickly as possible from that relationship. Instead it took me several years, and it ended with him dumping me for another woman and me in the hospital.