It is extremely traumatic to experience that level of hostility from someone with whom you were intimate on so many fundamental limits, someone who was family, someone you exposed your best and worst parts to, someone with whom you were vulnerable and let see the "inner you". That is the cruelest cut. To be treated with far less civility and consideration than a stranger on the street. Hey, don't you KNOW me? This is me.
I really feel for all WAS who get to a genuine place of remorse about their behaviour. It must be very difficult when they actually examine and take responsibility for their actions. Very difficult indeed. That is a hard place to be.
