maybe it was because he was fiercely loyal, showing her over and over again that he wasn't the same man he’d been, that she could trust him, that she should trust him again,
This is crazy because "what he did" was just take a trip to Europe after his mother died at like...19 years old. And he didn't tell her because she's his 18 year old bestie and not his mommy? You know? Like he is not the villain here you are just entitled.