Dear Coleen I’m a woman in my 30s and have a group of female and male friends who I met at university. We stayed close and used to regularly meet up for nights out and weekends away . They’ve been such an important part of my life. A couple of years ago, one couple got a few of the others to invest in their start-up , but things went pear shaped for the business recently and everyone involved ended up falling out and those who invested lost their money. It was a mess and I felt glad I hadn’t