Hi Watcher. I can sure understand being angry about people taking advantage....it certainly is not fair. Might I recommend that rather than promising yourself that you won't let anyone hurt you anymore, perhaps you could promise yourself you will do your best to get hurt as little as possible? After all, we are human, and as humans we are imperfect. Besides that, we can't always predict others, and it doesn't help us if we expect ourselves to be perfect in knowing what others are going to do and how it will affect us. None of us likes to be hurt, but none of us can 100% prevent it either....the best we can do is minimize it and learn to deal with it when it does happen, so that we can move on. Please know that I care,a nd I'm here if you want to bounce any ideas off of me or anything.