This is a toughie. I've been there.

When stinging it's tough to think straight. Try to give yourself time in silence so you can address the feeling and release it. Sitting with the feeling - no matter how agitating or angry the practices causes you to be - is the quickest way to release it.

I came to realize these folks taught me a valuable lesson about myself and eventually became grateful to them for doing so. Of course, I released them from my life Not because I was angry at them but because I had outgrown the relationship. New people more in harmony with my vision quickly entered my life when I let the feelings and people go.

I wish you the best

Ryan Biddulph

It's even harder when the love of your life stabs you in the front.... that'll take years to recover

I can hear the pain. Sympathetically said, it's also a matter of perspective.

In the first Wall Street, Gordon Gekko says: "if you want a friend... Get a dog". Gekko wouldn't have bothered much if what happened to you had happened to him.

This says something about how important friendship is for you, which is great.
This also says that the people who stabbed you didn't value friendship the same way you do.

If all of this is true, this may say raise a question, if not a doubt, about how much of a friend the people who found in themselves the ability to hurt you emotionally actually were.

I can relate to your pain big time. Time does heal as they say, it does hurt for a long time and you do have to release them and go on with your life. You will find out later that there is always someone else to come along to fill that void in your life. One thing that you need to never do though is build a wall around your heart. Don;t let bitterness,unforgiveness hold you captive. Forgive them and release them.

The best thing you can do is forgive them, and then let it go - under no circumstances should you dwell on how and why things happened the way they did.

Just move on and don't let it be a stumbling block. The less time you dwell on it, the better off you will be, and the more time you can spend on your business doing constructive things!

Paul

They obviously weren't true friends,so just treat it as a painful lesson learned.

If a friend backstabs you, then it hurts.

But if a love one stabs you in the front, then it hurts BIG TIME.

I ended up making up with both of them.

They ARE true friends, we just had a difference of interpretations of events I guess.

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