Thanks, Buffy. Honest question, though… Has anyone here had the experience of the intentionally hurtful person owning up to their behavior and apologizing? I know I wanted that from them so much! I feel you, HH, how much we all want, at the very least, that person to take responsibility and acknowledge they were wrong . It stems from this feeling of how could they have thought so little or so poorly of us? It is a feeling of being unseen, dismissed, run over.