Your description of winter regret struck a chord. And yet, his reaction to your apology would have been very painful to me, had I been carefully composing and offering the apology---had I been in your shoes. It would have been almost stunningly painful rather than liberating. Your apology seems to have put him immediately on the defensive. Does it truly make you feel better to know that someone whose love you regret is happy in a new relationship? I'm wondering, because my reaction to my ex-husband's Bower of Bliss is so different that I suspect it is not quite normal.
