Dear Matt:

You are very welcome. I am glad that you were able to arrive “at a very conscious and respectful ending“, and am sorry that the relationship cannot be salvaged at this time. It may never be salvaged.

You wrote that hopefully something good comes out of this: if used as a learning opportunity and experience- good can come out of it. If you are interested (and it is okay with me if you are not), you can use your thread as a place of learning. It is a public forum of course, and not a therapeutic setting (neither am I a therapist), but as two members we can still learn together, if we are willing.

anita