Well there was that one time my close friend Bugun from Korea, who studied from and traveled with the same late Korean philosopher I studied from for many years, after corresponding frequently with me for a few years, working on numerous translations together, and starting up a publishing website, came to stay with me, with another interested student in tow, at my Brooklyn apartment, with the intention of staying potentially indefinitely, and after standing a couple weeks of contact with me, at the drop of a hat, decided he couldn't stay in my apartment anymore, had to go back to Korea by booking a flight the next day, and canceled our plans to have our mutual friend and fellow student Alberto come visit us from Spain. I have recordings of all of it. I asked him questions about psychology. Apparently I hit a nerve and he fled. I realized later that others who Bugun had been telling me that he did the same thing to that the late Korean philosopher - left him a few times and only came back onto the scene after the philosopher died in 2008.

Oh and that one time that my (supposedly) extremely close friend of nearly 15 years, Howard, who had been operating a company with me for four years as my cofounder, after working with me at a development shop in Brooklyn for years (a job I got him), after graduating highschool together… suddenly decided he was going to stop talking to me for a month right after we pivoted our product a year ago, and then suddenly resign without giving any reason whatsoever. No fighting, per se, except the last thing I said to him was requesting a time he'd be available to talk about something I needed to work on over winter break due to our pivot. Oh, and he had threatened burning out and walking away a few years ago when we had another partner involved too. In hindsight there were definitely some big red flags that I gave him too much benefit of the doubt for – and I learned some big lessons about people through the ordeal. I was at least able to get him to write some notes about what he did as treasurer and sell me back the shares so I could take over. After that even though I tried many months later, he can't even respond to a single one of my texts.

And then there was that time three months after Howard resigned that my wife's best friend of 10 years, John, a math major she met in college (who I also knew for the same amount of time) who was incidentally good friends with my ex-cofounder, Howard, by my introduction, and who incidentally helped me through the break-up with Howard, and who incidentally took over Howard's treasurer duties at the drop of a hat because of our supposed strong bond, who traveled frequently with us, and who was going to move in as our roommate… decided to suddenly resign from being treasurer without any warning, and then stonewall returning company materials, and then never talk to either myself nor my wife again. There was zero fighting which led up to this. When I tried to ask him what was going on all he did was deflect.

That was the most recent batch.