TL;DR at bottom
To recap [Part 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/gonewildstories/comments/mib7ev/i_m30_and_my_former_supervisor_and_close_friend/), I had originally known Christina as my beautiful and awesome former supervisor at my first full time job out of college, where I worked for three years. I harbored a longtime, somewhat guilty crush on her that I couldn’t act on as we were both married, though my marriage was miserable and emotionally abusive. I later left that job for a higher paying, but much more miserable job, and lost contact with my beloved former manager. I then got fired and my wife left me, sending me into severe depression. I eventually got a better job and things started looking up, leading to my agency sending me to a leadership conference in the Boston area.
Meanwhile, Christina had a rough go as well. When I her closest friend informed her that I was leaving, she had just suffered a miscarriage and learned that her husband had been having an affair. She then went through a quick but ugly divorce. Oh, and something I didn’t mention the first part, everybody knew how close Christina and I were, and because her divorce and my leaving happened at the same time, the rumor went around that it was Christina who cheated with me. She got hauled into a board meeting and questioned about violating relationship policies, and quite angrily tore them a new one for calling into question both her, and my, morality, based on rumor mill. Needless to say, she was badly depressed and anxious for awhile too. However, we reconnected when I found out that we were going to the same conference.