Yeah...I hear you. People can't handle the truth, or they have no context for accepting the truth. You were brave to tell her the truth of your financial situation. I have not done that, I've alluded to it, but let people thing what they will. The term bipolar has such a stigma attached to it. Most folks don't know what to do with it when you tell them. I'm just lucky he didn't pull out an AK-7! Ha ha, actually, he really was taken aback and didn't want anything to do with me after that. Not that I really minded, it was a dive bar after all