I wish I'd gotten sober before I met him. I might have walked away much earlier on OR I would have been thinking clearly enough to never get involved in this way in the first place... There's no longer any justification for it... Well, I'm over it. There's nothing more I can do but move on.
The old me would have overreacted to the part of your post, teatree, where you said I could take a lesson... because that lesson should be obvious. Of course we know that many things that would be obvious to a non-addict are less obvious to us or are made fuzzy by our AV.