Well, you know, that's the thing about friends. They try to give each other advice about their lives. In the end, the decision rests with the person getting the advice, but sometimes it helps to be reinforced in your decision or get an outside perspective on it.
Most of us here are decent people and just want to help one another. I certainly don't want to see KT or anyone else here suffer needlessly in a bad relationship, and if that's what I see happening, I won't be afraid to say so. I don't expect people to do what I say, just as I shouldn't be expected to do what anyone else says, but advice certainly has its place. Listening to any one person I would definitely say is a bad idea. Take the sum total of the input and figure out what to do yourself.
Drone, you act like she's retarded and can't decide anything for herself. There are certain people around here who do make threads about how their lives suck, we give them advice, and they utterly ignore it. Eventually, people get tired of putting forth the effort to help. But I have not seen anything like this from KT before, and I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
I can't imagine what kind of friend you must be in real life. "Hey, don't lay your problems at my feet, I don't want anything to do with them! I'm not qualified!" I'm sorry, I just don't respect that position very much. What kind of friend is unwilling to speak up when they see something very wrong happening to someone they supposedly care about?
*Sigh* Some people just can't get past through my "Grain of Salt" comments and pretty much disregard everything else I've said. Did you at least skim through some of my posts? If not, can you please read my latest reply to Sidious? Please don't try to demonize me as the person looking down on KT; my only advice to her is to be cautious. I'm certainly not the one giving her unsolicited advice urging her which course of action to take.
I've read your replies. They all amount to the same thing. No one has advised her to be incautious, so I find it curious that you find yourself to be the lone voice in the wildnerness, begging her to listen to reason and ignore everyone else.
Unsolicited advice? You can't be serious. This is a message board. You don't start a thread venting about your life unless you want to hear what people think of it. Some people are going to give advice. Shocking, I know. If somebody wants to rant about things without getting feedback, I suggest they go start a blog and turn off all comments. Or keep a personal diary for that purpose. No need to post it online at all.
I don't think you're the "villain" of this thread or anything, I just find your attitude rather spineless and unhelpful.
One other thing: You don't know anything about me or my friends at all, and you can't begin to make false and inaccurate assumptions about me. Perhaps my biggest problem is that sense of ARROGANCE, the all-knowing, cant-go-wrong presumptuous attitude evidenced by so many posters in this thread.
Yes, of course, it's arrogant to want to help someone. Silly me. I should have known better.