Is It all worth the heartache?

I sympathise with you completely. Our friends, who have known me for 25+ years and are godparents to our children, have welcomed his new arm-candy with open arms and are breaking out the champagne to celebrate their forthcoming baby. As for his family - his parents, who loved me, are dead, and the rest have erased me from their memory cards as if I had never been. You and I know a few things about betrayal, don't we? Things I would have preferred never to know. Make new friends, that's my advice - the old will try to keep you mired in the old life which he was such a core part of.