At the time I thought oh, he's being so transparent. Now of course I suspect he was signaling that he became her substitute client. Narcissists are pretty good at lying to your face when it suits their purposes.
This reminds me when at the height of her affair when she was still doing the double-life thing that my ex suddenly became "very transparent" - telling me when she was out and where she was going and who she was with.
In hindsight - I honestly don't know what the truth was but those sort of crumbs certainly kept me dancing and hoping. I think at the time that someone wrote to me here something to the effect of her shining a light on what she wanted me to see so that I wouldn't see what she wanted kept hidden.
There was also the time when she went away with a GF and came back complaining that her friend was out all night partying - her friend had a story that was the exact opposite I only heard long after she left.
I've heard that a big part of the thrill of an affair is the "getting away with it" part.
On BD H52, W50 T27, M26 S21, D23 BD-9-Mar-16 D-15-Jan-18 Final-19-Apr-18 I am a storyteller. The story may do you no good. But a story is never for the listener. It is always for the one who tells
