What I wrote about being a victim didn't apply to your post
More generally, to the theme of the vile Mystra. But when it came to his friends, I had a different understanding of what he was saying, that he never really had them, or that there were as many of them as a pinhead. He cut himself off because of his situation, not from his friends (after all, he had some contact with Elminster) but from his colleagues.I imagine that even if Gale had very close friends, they wouldn't have been able to reason with him about Mystra. Gale is already written in such a way that only a new love showed him that he can have an earthly relationship, where more or less everyone has the same status.
