STOP!!!! Something I want to yell at him often!!! He still sets me off. Stop touching me. Stop making yourself so at home in the house you left. Stop complimenting me. Stop smiling at me. Stop the joking. I do not want to be your friend right now. I do not want to pretend that what you did was OK. I definitely don't want you to ever feel like you have the right to touch me, even in passing. You lost all of these rights. You are not my husband, my partner or even my friend. Just stop.
You know what - go ahead and yell. Okay, maybe not yell. Speak firmly, and politely. Be controlled within yourself, and remember that you have the power to tell him that he needs to stop. I somehow suspect no one has said that to him in a long time.
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