I could tell Tuzy loved to lavish someone from the outset, testing their reaction to his “strong feelings.” If you’ve been starved for kindness and attention for so long, it’s an easy salve. A high-calorie dessert. After a couple of weeks, he’ll start to withdraw and then disappear almost entirely. You’re left wondering whether anything was true at all, if he meant it. With the quickness of his disappearance, you ask if you did anything wrong to send him away. I’m wary of the type because the initial reasons he’s taken with you are, in the end, the same ones he’ll hate you for. A man like that
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