I and my partner were socially shunned from my program for leaving the field, not tracked, and never invited to an event... until suddenly when they wanted mone

I and my partner were socially shunned from my program for leaving the field, not tracked, and never invited to an event... until suddenly when they wanted money. After coming back and visiting, I found the vast majority of professors shallow and self centered, coddled by positions that afforded them little to no emotional growth or challenge that is demanded of the rest of humanity.