Krissy-
I am so sorry this is happening to your friends! You are the smart
one. You're just gonna have to ride out their wave of insanity (it
will end) & wait for them to come crawling back to you, begging for
forgiveness(
do or say to get them to understand where you are coming from, &
there isn't anything you can do or say to get them out of it. I
would recommend you check out www.pinktruth.
lots of stories on there that sound just like yours. Thst site has
helped me to detox from my brainwashing experience.
keelyandsheamama
--- In mlmsurvivorsclub@
wrote:
>
> I'm so thrilled to have found this place. Back in June of this year,
> my best friend's brother joined a new er...'team'. I asked him what
he
> was up to, but he was really evasive with his answers. He was even
> leaving his wife, who had just given birth, to go on weekends. Since
> the baby was born I think he's spent about three weekends home.
>
> I was vaguely suspicious but I figured he was just excited about it.
> My best friend wasn't sure what he was up to either, and we both
> giggled over how much time he was investing in it. Two weeks ago her
> brother managed to manipulate her into going to a meeting. The very
> next day, she was trying to wheedle me into going.
>
> She said the meeting was boring but the guys there were hot.
Wouldn't
> I like to come?
>
> I of course, said "No". I didn't know what it was about and since
she
> said it was boring, I didn't want to go on a three hour trip to
> someplace and sit through another meeting. Besides, to me it was odd
> that she 'needed' to go to another meeting so soon, and that she'd
> invite me to go. Wouldn't we be on totally different schedules?
>
> Well, finally her brother asked me to go to a business dinner the
> night before the next meeting. I reluctantly agreed. I've been
friends
> with them for eleven years, so I figured there would be no harm in
> listening to what they had to say.
>
> Dinner was fine and fun. He paid, and we finally got down to
> 'business'. He showed me his business card, which had no info on the
> company, just a logo and name and how to reach HIM...not the
company,
> except for his own personal website, which he told me not to explore
> until I go to the meeting.
>
> That made me wary. He explained about what his company does, and
what
> this particular MLM did, how it worked, and how in just three to
five
> months, I could be earning thousands of dollars, and in three to
five
> years I could have some sort of residual income.
>
> I knew right then that it was a scam. Or it feels like one, at
least.
> I agree to go to the meeting, but I tell him I want to research it.
> Quick as you could say the company's name he had scooped up his
> materials and put them away, stating that he researched it too and
> thought it was all right.
>
> I was told I would get all the information I needed at the meeeting,
> that he understood how I felt -- he'd been skeptical too, until he
> heard someone tell him.
>
> Now I was annoyed and a bit worried. Both my best friend and her
> brother seemed to totally be into something that neither of them
could
> -- or would -- explain to me. It was disconcerting and frankly,
> frightening.
>
> So the meeting ended, I went home and did my own research anyway.
What
> I found concerned me even more. In fact, it was rather alarming.
> Neither of them would answer my calls that night, so I had to leave
a
> message that I was sorry, but I didn't want to attend their meeting
> after all.
>
> The next day I still hadn't heard from them, and I finally called.
My
> best friend of eleven years called me a horrendous name and demanded
> to know why I didn't want to attend their meeting. I tried to be
> polite by telling her I couldn't afford it, but apparently it's only
> $25 bucks to join or some non-sense. She kept pressing me for an
> answer, so finally I responded honestly; it was a scam, a pyramid,
and
> I wanted no part of this particular company.
>
> That made her angry, she accused me of lying. She told me I had no
> desire to improve my life, that I had no chance of being successful,
> and she claimed I had insulted her family because they had
researched.
> Then she asked if I was really saying no, and I said, "That's right,
> I'm not going."
>
> Her brother calls me ten minutes later and said he didn't think I
had
> the ability or desire to do this anyway, but he and his sister had
> wanted to provide me with a chance to be successful.
>
> They haven't spoken to me since. I'm frustrated, angry, and
terrified
> for them. I also feel like my heart's been broken, since I've known
> them for so long. They acted like I was dirt, like I was nothing --
> and now they are pretending I don't exist.
>
> So that's my story. Any help or suggestions on how to deal with
this?
>
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