My H gives a different explanation everytime...LOL...which makes me think even he doesn't know what is going on. Sometimes I was a crazy insane b!tch to live with who had too many emotional problems. (An exaggeration of reality--I can admit my faults.) Sometimes he's just stupid, didn't know the value of what he had, and is too wrapped up in his "hurt-child" scenario. (Also true, but exaggerated.) Sometimes it's a mix of the two. Sometimes it was an accident. And sometimes it was all planned, to improve our M in the long run, and we were both willing participants.
Um, yeah.
So I quit bothering to point out that all of these are contradictory. I just validate, and stop letting that aspect concern me. I've decided that he wasn't thinking, just hurting and feeling too much, and didn't know what else to do.