I've known you for something like 3-1/2 years now, so presumably that's far shorter a time than whoever it was who said you couldn't do this or that, but I find it infathomable that anyone could say that you - well, most anyone in general, but specifically you here, because it's your LJ - couldn't make it through school, attract or keep a spouse, or be loved in general.

The correct response is to stop hanging out with people like that. Which it sounds like you did.

So . . . carry on.