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The rewarding conclusion wasn’t just that his money was safe. It was that our relationship was rebuilt on a foundation of actual honesty, rather than the polite, guarded distance we’d had for years. He realized that my “controlling” nature wasn’t about holding him back, but about being the only person in the world who didn’t have an ulterior motive for loving him. He started seeing a therapist to work through his insecurities, and he’s now dating someone he met at a local hiking club—a girl who actually wants to meet me and knows my name.
