I think your plan to figure it out over the weekend is a great one. Take the time.
Recommend, not involving friends and family, figure it out for you. Friends and family have a desire not to see us hurt, so the advice is geared toward getting the hurt over quickly, because they think it is what they would do...but willing to bet alot of them would end up here too.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK