A normal person does not continue a relationship in which he is not respected. In fact, he won't even start one.
She wants to remain friends. I have no choice but to trade love for friendship, or disappear from her life forever. I choose the latter. Why? Because that's the way it has to be... You can't live in a house that's burned to the ground.
- No," he said quickly. - No," he said quickly. "Not that. Stay friends? Grow a little vegetable garden on the cold lava of faded feelings? No, that's not for you and me. It only happens after a little fling, and even then it's pretty fake. Love is not tainted by friendship. The end is the end.
Yes, every couple has "accidents" in life, but when a tire goes flat, you don't throw your car in a junkyard.
Real men never resent women. They just wait for them to settle down and keep on loving them.