It is always in times of great trials that one learns what "fair-weather friends" really means. No matter how hurt and battered you may already feel before, during, and after the process of leaving a marriage, you are not exempt from this truth. The realization, often, is almost as damaging as the breakdown of marriage itself: you have already lost someone who you had vowed to be with through thick and thin, but because of one reason or the other, now you may find that some others will follow suit.