I took a few psych classes in years gone by. Naive isn’t a word that anyone who know me would ever use, lol! That, I’m not and thankfully have never had anyone in my life for long who may have acted like the fellow in your life did. I don’t let anyone screw me over:) Husband is basically an all-around good guy. But see, your own experience, like mine, affects your perceptions of others. It’s how we all work. And, I cannot say your perception of Howard is wrong, either. You might turn out to be right. Or, I might be right and you wrong, or someone else might be right. I don’t feel as if I really know these people at all well enough to make definitive conclusions. Sometimes we can, but sometimes we can’t.
Sometimes we can, but sometimes we can’t.
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And you say tomato and I say tomahto, HA!
Seriously, I guess we will all see soon.