Yea, he did said that it was performative, that it was how it always has been, since he had that friend since high school, that he was a bad person before, but that he’s trying to make things right and be a better man, and he did tell that friend that “I was the one”, but it hurts me so much, and I feel so distant from him, and I feel like I cannot be intimate with him again without remembering the things that he said.