It’s important to pay attention to his actions. People can say lots of things, it’s what they do that matters. He knows how to manipulate you. He knows you fold and give in.

You can’t change him, you can only educate yourself and change how you react. It’s not easy, it’s important to be patient with yourself. It’s not easy to break your own reactions and that you still hang onto that hope of what you wanted him to be that just is not going to be.