If you NOW don't like your ex, and NOW don't like your former circle of friends, then it sure is good they are all but ignoring you.  If you can afford it, move to a different city or state -- or at least, further away in your own city or state, (or even to another country!)  If you have to stay where you are, them make NEW friends, and get a job....or a NEW job.  Take the e-mails sent to you by your friends and print them out....and turn the print-outs into paper flowers, or doilies, or anything else silly you can thnk of.  Get these people OUT of your mind and OUT of your life.  (MY EX-brother-in-law is someone I've hated since I met him. The biggest mistake my sister ever did was marry him....the best thing she ever did was divorce him. He's a coward and a bully, and a verbal abuser...of EVERYONE.  (He once asked his OWN SON:  "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"  He told ME: "You're 6 years younger than I am, and I'll never forgive you for that!"  And that's just the top of the ice-berg!  I now am forced to live in the same city as he....but I contact him as litttle as possible. I M P O R T A N T.......HE ALSO BULLIED ME INTO GIVING HIM A HOLIDAY PRESENT LAST YEAR.  SO I GAVE HIM 'SECRETS OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND', BY T.HARVE EKER.  IT IS A VERY SMALL BOOK....BUT IT HAS MADE EVEN HIM MORE THOUGHTFUL AND KIND.  NOT COMPLETELY...BUT THERE IS AN IMPROVEMENT.  THIS BOOK IS A SELF-IMPROVEMENT BOOK, CLEVERLY DISGUISED AS A GET-RICH-QUICK BOOK!  MR. ECKER ALSO DISTILLED THE WISDOM IN HIS SMALL BOOK INTO A DECK OF CARDS!  'THE SECRET OF THE MILLIONAIRE MIND CARDS' ARE EASY TO READ AND 'DIGEST'.  I EVEN WROTE A REVIEW OF THESE CARDS ON AMAZON.COM, (UNDER THE NAME OF 'PATRICIA, A READER').  I'VE MET SOME OTHER PEOPLE, (ON THE NOW SADLY-GONE MSN GROUPS), SAY THE T. HARVE EKER BOOK AND CARDS HAVE CHANGED EVIL PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES!   IF YOUR EX- AND/OR YOUR FORMER FRIENDS KEEP UPSETTING YOU, BUY THEM COPIES OF THIS BOOK, OR SEND THEM ANONYMOUS LETTERS TO GET IT OUT OF THE LIBRARY.  IT HELPS A LOT!!!!!  : )