Sorry to hear your story. Should we be surprised? These days, everyone knows best - look at things on here!! If I listened to all the advice typed on here, then I've been doing RC wrong for over 30 years!!
Sometimes it seems that they should be called anti-social networking sites!
Best of luck for the future, and I hope you find more people like the copper in your life, and less like the people who assumed they knew it all, and didn't.