Learning to Trust Myself

[Burgbud]

Or maybe I'm paranoid and am mistaking genuine baby steps for manipulation.

Seems like the perfect place for an application of acting "as if".

Even if he's making genuine baby steps it may take him awhile to figure out the pull away is now a cheeseless tunnel. So if he tries it again you're not necessarily back at square one.

The real question is, when he truly realizes he doesn't have near the control over you that he used to will he accept that and start working his life around it or will he get pissed and try to exert control some other way? Nothing for it right now but to sit back and wait and see. Either way you're better for what you've become.

But the waiting is always the suckiest part, isn't it?

Oh, and I went right by this in an earlier post...H at one point said he'd never kiss you again and he wouldn't ride in your car. You mentioned the lack of kissing a post or two ago, is that still because of his original claim? Does he still say he'll never do it again? Does he still not ride in your car?