wow....just finished....some very insightful stuff.
<<if I do start feeling better, I would hate to go back and be flooded with pain again down the road>>
Perhaps you should worry about crossing that bridge when you get there and work on the first part...feeling better.
Let me put this in a black and white way and forget about the grey. You want more details than you already have..he is afraid to give you any details because it may hurt more. He thinks your relationship needs to be stronger before disclosing more. You think your relationship has to have disclosure in order to grow.
Sacrifice??? hmmm.....well if I wanted somebody back after having screwed around for three years, I would do whatever you wanted. Sounds simple enough??? Anything and then some....you want to talk, we talk....you want me to read a book, i read a book. you want to go away on a vaca, i make it happen....you want to go shopping, (this is a hard one) we go shopping. One thing that you would not have to ask for however.......Guaranteed!