"Attack" is in the eye of the beholder, gents. Same behavior could also be called "tough love".
As I started my first post on this thread with (a sentiment that evidently didn't hold up under the heat of the rest of the post), I said to him EXACTLY what I wish somebody'd said to me when things were going that way in my relationship, in EXACTLY the way I wish they'd said it. It would have stung, but it would have made a difference.
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