If you love someone let them go. I am starting to see what that really means.
I'm really not disagreeing with you. In fact, I would say "letting him go" was the response I should have had to my 2bx's disagreeable defensive/offensive behavior. Actually, that's actually what I did do and when I "let him go" he left. The fact that he went psycho-fused when he found out that I was dating was just an ego reaction brought on by the swift and sudden removal of all his defensive layers of telling himself that I was too nerdy or too poorly wardrobed etc. to f*ck.
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - Mary Oliver