I don't know where to start but over the course of the last year I have went through hell with my job and my personal life because of a relationship with a woman I worked with that turned sour in an instant. I didn't see anything that was coming. She is a "professional victim" as I have heard it called. A habitual liar, violent and exploitive of all of the men in her life. She uses the system to preempt men before she can be exposed. I went from a good man to having my life and almost my entire career ripped apart because of the things she did to me and the lies that she told. I have been in counciling since September and had to go through three court battles which I won. But without getting into all of the details here, I have felt trapped. I have felt ripped off by the system in so many ways and I do not have a voice. My employer turned its back on me, yet supported her in so many ways. I have no choice but to stay there or my life falls apart even more. I can't even scratch the surface of what went on but I need help because it is defining me when it shouldn't. I don't know what to do or where to turn and I feel I should. I am posting here because this is real and one doesn't know what this feels like until it happens and I feel like this is my last place to turn. I want my life back. I want to be happy.... But how? I don't know what to do. I am not suicidal... I am very strong and I want to live. But right now, I am miserable. Is there hope?