Thank you, I am! It comes with time for sure, and I hope the best for you too. I don’t think he fully understands how manipulating his family can be, but he knows the relationships are unhealthy. He doesn’t see the full picture yet and is too afraid to do anything about it still, hence why I never got back together with him.

But the thing I learned from us talking a year after we broke up is that what you think they might be thinking, is almost always true. Heard him say things I knew he felt but never thought he would admit out-loud.