Have you cracked? Gone mental? Lost your mind?!?!

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I probably should have posted this in another category, but it does take life into consideration, not jut my ranting or the people involved. It's a mixed bag post if you will. A while back, an online friend of mine, who I worked for, he stopped coming online. None of his co-workers/friends paid much attention to this at the time, as we all thought he was probably just busy with his life. But time went on, and people continued posting on his Facebook page, asking him where he was. He never once responded, which started to worry us. His sites disappeared as well, none of us knowing why. We had no way to find out what was going on with him. Then last week, one of his closer friends posted on his wall, extremely concerned about him. So I started thinking about this, and started to do some research. I tracked down who I thought were family members in his list of friends and contacted 2 of them. I held a lot of hope that either of them would reply to me, but neither of them did. That was, until today. We were still trying to find any information on him that we could, found a phone number attached to his domain registrar, but it proved not to be in service. We really started to worry, and one of his friends even suggested flying out to where he lived. But since he lived overseas, this would prove to be rather expensive, and I suggested that he save himself a trip. I was in contact with someone who had friends who had connections in the country where this guy lived. She was going to talk to them and see what they could come up with. I'd sent her all the information I had 2 days ago, but today, this would prove to be unnecessary. I found a message in my Facebook inbox, from this guy's wife. She was one of 2 that I'd contacted and hadn't heard from. So I was surprised to hear from her. What she told me surprised me, and it wasn't the news I was expecting. It wasn't the worst news ever, but still it wasn't something I was wanting to hear. It turns out that he left her, just dumped her for another woman. Changed his phone number and gave up all of his online work. Everything he had, he gave up at least 7 years of work for a woman. His sites were worth a lot of money, he could have sold them, but he may not have been given the chance by this woman. I told his friends, the ones who were really worried about him, but I couldn't go into details as I had been sworn into confidence by his wife. I can say it here because I'm not naming names, and no revealing details about it. But it floored us all. It came as a major shock as we'd all worked with him, and all of our hard work had disappeared without a trace. Working for years on websites with nothing to show for it in the end really makes you feel that you've wasted all of your time. Not to mention that he owed them money, and now they weren't going to see any of it. They don't care about that, their only concern now is that he did this to them. He gave up a great relationship he had with his wife, and an excellent online business, but it seemed like the woman was more important to him. So, now we're all lost, none of us know what to do about this situation. We're all positive that he'll never come back, although I do hold on to a bit of hope that he'll wise up and see the error of his ways. If he does come back, it will not be the same, but hopefully everyone can work together as we used to.