Did you try being cheated on? Shown affection and unlimited love then discover it was all an act?
You can't recover from that and you lose confidence in yourself and every other person whatever they do, you'll always compare and say: oh, even that scumbag said/did the same thing.
So true. No one actually 100% heals from that trauma it'll always be lurking in the back of your mind and affecting your decisions and actions. It causes you to be overly happy in the moment but overthink when triggering events occur.
I also agree with OP's pov where they just want mc to be able to navigate her relationship in a more "mature adult" way but that's gonna require mc to come to her own realization that ml loves her and for her to fully accept it. She could either get therapist or just actually sit down and have a good talk with ml (づ￣ ³￣)づ
Also adding to being a mature adult. Can that side guy stop being such a kid trying to probe at our mc already?
Yare yare ╮(￣▽￣)╭
She needs to stop being insecure and projecting her paranoia at him. I don’t understand people who still don’t believe someone loves them when it’s being told to their face AND they’re being shown affection like Ik you were hurt but damn it’s been four years are you really that traumatized by him saying he didn’t reciprocate your feelings he didn’t call you ugly or anything…