yeah. I mean, I'm trying very hard to be all mature and what not and not respond to the gossip-post, but eh, what Karen asked!

Haha, well, I'm still Facebook friends with them from my FDR days, and their status recently changed to "single," and one of them started hinting that she needed to find a roommate. Then I looked on the FDR boards for more info, and found that I couldn't access Rich's profile. It doesn't say "deleted by moderator" or whatever it usually says when Stef deletes someone's account, it says "The resource you requested does not exist." That makes me think he left voluntarily. His last post was indicating that he and Colleen were going to make it to the BBQ, and apparently they did, according to some pictures I've seen. There's a good chance that something happened at the BBQ that precipitated the break up, but I can't be sure.

I think I'm like you guys, I hear stuff like this and get curious, like getting a mystery to solve. I just happened to have the resources to follow up on it. It makes me wonder how much goes on behind the scenes at FDR that people never hear about. I wonder how two people, together for years, many of them deep in the FDR methodology, could break up. Well, I do know -- the FDR methodology isn't the answer to the world's problems -- but I wonder how THEY explain it as anything other than a failure of the FDR method.

shucks, I actually very much liked this one conversation they had with Stefan about their financial situation and their relationship. I genuinely thought Stefan gave excellent advice and analysis in that one.

So much for the "perfect community", eh?

Yes. This is especially sad though because the very reason that most join in the first place is that they have a genuine desire to pursue honesty and virtue in their lives......and then they somehow do develop this blind spot.