Thanks Cyrena so much for explaining it to me. Also, thanks for sharing your story. It takes a lot of courage to tell people what you went through.
I hope you are right as far as my H getting to the point where he is strong enough to stop pretending also.
Do you think that my H is suffering from a MLC? I often wonder if it is a MLC or just a terrible depression because of his illness of being depressed many many years.
His step-mother I believe talked him into leaving (I only threw H out thinking it would be for a day or two) because he was up there 5 days before all of this happened.
Oh, and this friend that I'm talking about thinks that H will get fed up with both of the families telling him what to do and will tell them off once and for all.