I wish you this year of your life, to bring to you all the happiness accumulated so far... Love Maria
As for Gabe, I've been MIA cause I know you are torn between desperately wanting this to work and having the experience he may bail out.
Keep in mind that : Gabe came back with a "I love you and I need a place to stay" kind of way. If he had money, a place to stay, would he still be ...watering your plant? Forget the original reason why, he is nice and caring afterall. Do you honestly think he changed? Has he done work? Have you done work too? What scares me is that your self esteem is so fragile, I dont know how you will handle another stupidity act from Gabe.
The only way I see you coming out of this is calling him on his BS, focusing on USING this opportunity to MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY. Use the guy, have him babysit, help around, feed your beaver, enjoy company time, see how he behaves, see how consistent he is and THEN, YOU get serious. It's a test and trial phase. Just my IMO...
