Positively new thread - how do you deal with this?

[RBinBR]

PL, I think you "did" fine, as it's really impossible to know what it best in our sitches. Your offer to him to move back in might have seemed needy, but it doesn't sound as though you presented it that way -- and it is a 180, at least. It will be interesting to see if he takes the offer, or what happens with his family if he does not.