Hang in there. Sounds like you are doing the right thing.
I have been following your thread. You deserve better.
Thank you. I am so into personal responsibility and self-examination that it is hard for me to get into I "deserve better"...
Somehow I imagine people are saying the same thing to him. I hope that I am not villainizing him to assuage my only feelings of culpability...you know? I want to learn and grow from this and head out on a different path, not fall into some victim mode. I think that is part of why I have been so gun-shy, I don't want to take action while in the muck but maybe taking action will get me out of the muck and then I can make sense of it.