Thanks, girls. Becca, I'm with you. Doesn't make sense to me, either. But it doesn't have to, I suppose. I'm just glad to feel vindicated from the guilt that I was allowing him to make me feel. That's enough for today.

Ellie,
I liked how you phrased that: anger is guilt turned outwards

I'm trying my hardest not to react. But every time I'm calm in the face of this crap, I feel like a big weenie, ya know? Oh well. I gotta do it this way so I have no regrets in the future. Except that I was a big fat weenie.