I too am devastated at starting over or continuing alone. Certainly things have not bee working with him and I doubt he is even capable of being a friend as I define it. He wants to remain friends as he defines it. That will never be acceptable to me. Friendship involves emotional connection, something that shows no signs of coming into play here, ever. He is anti-emotions. He just gets angry when emotions come up but his of course rule the day. I'm sick of the drama.

Counselling has always been useless. A distraction, nothing more.