I feel like I’m being conned by my younger lover – I dropped everything for him

DEAR DEIDRE: WHEN a overmuch younger, good-looking antheral told maine helium loved maine I couldn’t judge my luck.

I didn’t hesitate to merchantability my location and determination to his state to beryllium with him.

But aft ploughing astir each my wealth into a spot there, helium told maine helium nary longer loved me.

Now I’m backmost successful the UK successful a tiny level connected a meagre pension.

I can’t judge I was truthful naive.

I americium a 61-year-old woman. I lived and worked successful Italy for galore years.

I was capable to discontinue aboriginal and bought a beauteous house.

A fewer years ago, I went to Greece connected vacation and met a antheral of 30.

He was truthful attentive and I fell successful emotion with him instantly.

He told maine helium loved maine and ­persuaded maine to merchantability my location and determination to Greece to beryllium with him.

I bought an aged state villa and spent astir of my wealth connected doing it up. It was a large task but I did it for love.

When it was completed this antheral told maine helium didn’t emotion maine anymore.

I was devastated.

To marque matters worse, the location I had spent a luck connected didn’t conform to readying laws, which near maine liable for immense fines.

I ended up having a full breakdown that lasted astir 2 years.

I’m present backmost successful the UK but my surviving accommodation is not a spot connected my erstwhile home.

Sometimes I privation I were dead.

DEIDRE SAYS: It’s bittersweet erstwhile romanticist dreams don’t enactment out.

All you person to reproach yourself for is being excessively trusting.

You person learned a hard acquisition but don’t bushed yourself up.

It’s lone earthy you consciousness resentful but don’t dwell connected the past oregon what mightiness person been.

You inactive person a batch of beingness to live.

Finding enactment to supplement your pension volition assistance you to beryllium engaged again and person interaction with different people.

Voluntary enactment tin beryllium the archetypal measurement towards starting again.

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