And then I had a crazy idea. I called a friend who was into the arcane arts. She fancied herself a modern day Pagan or Wiccan or witch, or all of the above, I wasn't quite sure which.
Curses work best when they work on the mind, that's their real power.
And you have to be careful because the saying goes that what you send out comes back ten fold. Depends on who you talk to. And it sounds like you're trying to pen up the horse after it's left the barn. It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. I had no answer to those bits of useless wisdom.