 I would forgive the debt and walk away. This is costing you more angst and soul tax. This is taxing your brain. You are thinking about it. They aren't. So you're worried about straining the relationship. It's already strained. I don't know that it's ever going to go back to the way it was. If they came in and wrote you a check today and both of them paid you, you still don't have any respect for either one of these people.