HAHAHA that would be pretty funny

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But now I question What the heck!
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Yes. Your recount of how things were is surprising. What's a bit strange is that they were still married and this person seemed to be out getting involved in other intimate relationships.
I was tempted to contact her previous ex before me. Thankfully I think I understood how things generally worked by then with her, and didn't feel compelled enough to approach him. I did make some big losses, but figured at best we'd trade notes about how things "really" went down--because I'm quite sure there was some triangulation involved combined with the upwBPD outright lying to keep a triangle going. In the end I didn't really want to know more about the pwBPD or the previous ex enough to make contact. Apparently he was the subject of her beating for years longer than me. Unfortunate fella. Fortunately for me I had the blessing of other things I cared about around the time of the last breakup.
What was your takeaway?