When I say brand new I mean brand new.  The only people I have in my life that are really there is family.  The only “friends” I have are people I met through him so that ain’t really going to cut it.  I should rephrase – friends close enough to hang out with.  I have to start fresh.  This sucks because it is going to be hard.  The good news is that I can practice my quality of people in my life approach.  If you don’t cut it, you don’t cut it and that is all there is to it.  No more bending over backwards for people who don’t reciprocate.

I want to add to this now that I know the truth – I do have real friends that I met through him.  I just assumed that it would never work, but his actions made that decision easy.  People will see when someone does something this wrong to another person and do you really want to be around that kind of person?