...your story, I mean. Thanks Jane.

Interesting that you first came across EPO while trying to register for a program. I did the same. I went to an Internet cafe to try to register for the Brighton Program, just over two years ago (?). A premie had told me about EPO and warned me darkly not to look at it as the exes were very lost.  Once I had registered ( really expensive )...I searched in a very amateur way for EPO and found it. Had a quick look through before my "hour" in the cafe expired. I felt very naughty, guilty and nervous........not to mention a bit embarrassed in case anyone in the cafe saw that I was logged onto a Guru site.

However my appetite and curiosity had been whetted...it was nearly two years before I got myself online at home and took the time to begin to extricate myself.

As for the Brighton Event......I drove there with a premie friend who was very ill ( and has since passed away ) and his wife. The premie usher (inside the seating area) tried to stop me from sitting next to them although there was a space and wound me up with garbage reasons about why I had to sit somewhere else. ( I was afraid of  losing them in the crowd...my friend was in a wheelchair...I had to help them back to the car etc ). I don't know if it was the magic of one glance at EPO but I had already decided before the program that I wouldn't accept any bullshit behaviour when I had paid so much for the tickets ( I wouldn't accept bad customer service anywhere else...for example if I went to a West End Show ).Anyhow I " lost it" ( not too badly) with the premie usher when he illogically tried to make me sit in another seating area and instead of feeling guilty and ashamed I felt inexplicably triumphant when he relented.No offence meant to the usher, he was no doubt just obeying orders !