Spent $10k to travel overseas to Europe with a friend. As we are heading to the airport, to begin our trip, she tells me about her boyfriend fighting with her the night before. She stayed up most of the night and as things got more heated, she left and said it was over. Boyfriend sent her a Snapchat of himself overdosing on meds with some big guilt trip for leaving him. She calls an ambulance and he called to abuse her.

Spent the rest of the holiday listening to her go on and on about how she made the right choice, fuck him, let's enjoy the holiday, never going back to him. Stayed up some nights till 3am with her sobbing about how terrible he is and everything he'd done. I comforted her and gave her advice when she asked for it.

Get back home and he's waiting there with balloons and a welcome home sign. Turns out she forgave him three days before we headed home and organised for him to pick her up. Five years later, still together, toxic hatred between them, an abortion because she didn't want to father a child with him and multiple fights and break ups, both public and in private. Best thing I ever did was remove myself from that circle.