I agree with Rive - there’s a difference between being responsible for another person’s feelings, and doing their emotional labour yourself.
Your husband in the scenario of you cheating would be justified in feeling hurt and your relationship suffering/ending, because that would have been due to your choices, but the friend in Rive’s scenario would have to manage their own disappointment (not constantly beat you over the head with it) because what happened was out of your control.
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