"in my experience, after I came out of an abusive relation with an ex who was a complete emotional vampire, I realized that the nobody wants to listen to what is going on in my mind or what I went through. One 'friend' told me to 'get it out of my system'...as though I can just spit it out in a matter of a second. Quite a few friends thought that I was so unemotional that the entire episode wouldn't affect me at all. Apparently one of them actually met up with my ex a couple of times and sympathized with him.
My ex faked a relation with me for 2yrs 8 months, used me, abused me, took my help to advance his career, used my money to travel around. All this time he had another woman in his home country whom he was going to get married to. He was just using '. me as his 'play material'. Then when he was about to get married, he got together with his family and abused me. Two months later he gets married to that other woman. This woman and their families knew what he was doing and all of them watched the fun.

When this happened, a lot of their friends a lot of my 'friends'/acquantances came to know what happened. But everyone decided to stay away from the 'drama and hurl trash at me. The entire episode taught me my most important lesson in life....that no matter how difficult the situation is, I cannot expect any help/support from the people around me. Nobody wants to be involved in any drama. People will entusiastically join a birthday party, but they don't want to stand by me when I need any support. At least this made me a lot stronger. It may take me many more years to come out of this mental state, but at least I know I don't have any friends!"