Bright - I think you have a very cautious MLCer here. And I also feel that you have to totally let him go. Your new job will take you forward and away from him too, I sense, which may not be a bad thing either!
Your situation will be very different in a couple of years time, I believe. You are doing well - all that you feel is reasonable, but the problem is he isn't reasonable, although MLCer follow their own weird logic. I believe that you may well be one of those who in the end wouldn't take him back gold plated. Of course I could be wrong. He is a very very foolish man.
