I was in high school in 2003, and he was my best bud. He was going out with a girl-she had proposed and she had initiated most things. He was a stud, a great academic and a very gentle soul who didn't even have a girlfriend up until then(by his choice). They later got married and we all drifted apart.

Yesterday I went to visit my alma mater and was shocked to learn that my friend had killed himself in 2015. Even though we weren't in touch for so many years it hurt me a lot. From mutual friend I got to know the truth: She was cheating on him with a guy from grade 8 from all the way back then(I even knew that kid). They had kept that affair a secret and had continued it much later(in early 2010). I went around my town and what I discovered shocked and saddened me....He got to know of their affair from their love letters(physical written on notes). In the letter she tells the kid she feels bad that she is cheating on such a super guy but she can't help it- mind you these letters were from 2003 which she had kept and he discovered later. The bitch had given them to her friend who knew all along but kept her mouth shut. The letters were stained with my friend's blood(from what they told he had cut his palm in anger and just wiped everything on the paper. I cannot place the timeline correctly as to when he found them, confronted her and came to know it was happening all these years(12 year) but he jumped off a bridge later.

I wrote this because I am slowly but surely realizing what you guys mean. It is perpetuated everywhere that MGTOW guys are basement losers but the more older I become the more I realize that you have a point. That bitch relocated to a different town and no one has heard from her since but my God, when it hits home it makes you sit back and realize. My friend was an obedient, honest, sensitive guy, good looking and highly successful(He worked for NASA on one project and worked on the finest space organization in my country). I cannot make sense, I knew someone vaguely who perished on the MH17 airplane disaster and I cannot fathom the fact that something like that happened to a random person. Similarly I cannot bring myself to imagine why my friend did what he did-what went through his mind. I was angry because with the money he had he could relocate to any place on Earth. She coaxed him in high school but why? Why do this.She is directly responsible for his death and all she does is pack her bags and relocate and delete her facebook? Her friend says she talks to her and she is already in a relationship. I honestly feel like finding her and hurting her physically. Tomorrow I go to meet his parents whose house I'd visit as a kid.

EDIT: What makes me angry is that that 8th grade kid was a complete show off and a bore. She had failed in her 9th grade and was already 19 then and my friend and I were around 17, that kid was 14!!