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I did used to think that this was my fault for bumbling around like an idiot for too long, and that I didn't have any real right to her, I really did. But if I go along with that, that is, that it IS my fault things didn't go the way I wanted to, then I have no justifiable reason for wanting revenge.
In short, rights be damned. This is about something entirely different.
>there are actually some people who have a sense of, say, trust and duty
I think the word you mean to use is decency.
As I said above, I don't think I had any rights to her either, but it's not as if you can rationalize anger away. The human psyche just doesn't work that way, no matter how much you want it to.
Generally speaking now, I know better than to trust him or the people he was friends with before we met, obviously because his friends will favor him over me, and that he isn't trustworthy or decent.
Or for those of you who are nit-picky and want to challenge my claims, he's untrustworthy and indecent in my mind; that's all that matters to me.
On a somewhat unrelated note, I did try looking around for somebody else, but those ventures didn't end favorably. If things did go the way I wanted to, I wouldn't have returned to my original obsession and I wouldn't be angry about this.