"Do you ever get the feeling that some higher power is watching over you, doing its damnedest to make your life a total misery?"

Yes, and I've written almost that exact thing in a diary several times, although I usually use "malicious" and "sadistic" instead of "higher" up there.

I've been reading everything you wrote about this situation, and watching developments unfold about the way a bystander can't turn his head and look away from a train wreck. Just as BB, and just as the vast majority of the other people on this board, I am saddened to see it end this way. But I am not surprised in the slightest.

I know it doesn't do you any good for me to say "I told you so" but I told you that if you put the word "love" on a piece of paper and gave it to her, it would be used as justification for destroying your relationship, I told you there was almost no chance of repairing the damage their stupidity had already caused, and I told you the more you act like it matters, the more they'll think it justifies what they've done to her and to you by destroying your relationship.

My advice is to develop callouses on your gut, because shit-headed bastards are going to be kicking you in the gut the rest of your life, or as long as you actually try to create something beautiful with someone you love who is 'under age' like S.

I'm sorry, as I said before, if I sound bitterly angry at times, it's because I'm bitterly angry, having lived through your story more times than I care to remember, and hearing about it again brings back every one of them for me. I wish I could say something to cheer you up, but I can't. All I can say is, so far, I've lived through it and not just once, so I guess you will too.