he will be feeling guilt because this is how she’s played it all along. She had to make it in to a big deal for them just to be ‘intimate’. Gaslighting catch 22, he can see her games but he’s equally a decent bloke who has been made to feel like he has to be grateful for her. When she’s given any type of affection in return it’s taken to mean so much more than it usually would be in a healthy relationship. My ex was the male Alyssa in terms of gaslighting (I had my own child but he was a sole parent of 3 and did all of this with me, on his terms etc) combined with Harrison’s narcissism (stuff he says to control/manipulate/twist scenarios). Needless to say I’ll be single forever after that, still working through it but see so much of it. I can’t stand Brontë, but even very recently I have been justifying my ex relationship with ‘when it was good it was really good, when it was bad it was horrible’ like she said last night which was another wake up call for me