Dear kiwiboy0897:

Notice that in bitter (“it just makes me anxious and bitter”), there is anger, that’s what bitterness is, a slow buildup of anger.

How did your partner want a friendship with Steve after Steve came on to him? Some people don’t take people coming on to them sexually as a serious thing, a deal breaker of any kind. They shake the experience off them and proceed as if it didn’t happen. To you what happened in that bathroom was disturbing, not something you can get over. For your boyfriend, it probably didn’t mean that much, so he let it slide. Makes sense?

anita