There are men who are fine as fck, providers, emotionally intelligent, family oriented, and will put everyone in their place about you. Don't ever let anyone convince you that you can't have that.
falling out of love is one thing but slowly realizing your friend isn't a good person/not in alignment with you and needs to be let go is a pain that isn't talked about enough
Hate to admit it but they were right. You really do need to disappear, lock in like crazy, raise your standards, and refuse to lower them if you want your dream life.