The thing is there isn't really anywhere for us to go on this, except to be more friendly to each other and make my past 'safer' by our shared understanding of the past, and possibly even my understanding what he has been through. I am genuinely sorry for all that has happened, but I have a future as well as a past.
Well put.
The time involved in all of this can never be underestimated.
We can not put our lives on hold and my honest belief is if we do we can get stuck in our own crisis.