Tomorrow's therapy appointment is very well timed

[LiberalLoner]

3. They are lucky to have you in their lives. I hope things will work out soon. Usually people do break up

With toxic people. Might take more than one attempt though, like smoking.

My third stepmother left my abusive father, then after a few months remarried him and he was worse than ever, his stepdaughters kept calling the cops when he would beat their mother and finally he was arrested…a year or so after that she finally left him for good and started the long slow process of recovering and regaining the sanity he took from her. My stepsisters recovered from the nightmare but to this day hate him with a passion. He would do things like superglue the family Yorkshire terrier’s lips together as “punishment” and when he came back to find the kids had adopted a kitten, he took the kitten and threw it as hard as he could over the fence. The kitten never returned. Animals are smarter than humans, they know to never return to danger.