Echo, I have been out of town for the past week plus and just saw this thread.
Your letter was so very heartbreaking to read. So many portions of it hit home for me, especially with looking back at how things were a year ago, 2 years ago. I remember thinking then how bad things were and wondering when I was going to wake up from this nightmare, never imagining he had further to fall.
I'm so sorry he had to test you like that, to find out if you really *meant* it when you wrote that to him in FB.
This is the thing, probably the thing that hurts the most, but in those dark moments it helps the most to remember, for me at least. We can't tell. We can't tell what's in there, what gets through, what might happen, when that moment of clarity might come for them. All we can do is tell them what we see, and stand firm.
