and responsible behavior.
Vanessa’s situation also began to stabilize.
With professional guidance, she developed a plan for dealing with her debts and responding to the legal dispute with her former husband. I didn’t become her financial rescuer, and Eliam didn’t continue making decisions behind my back.
We agreed that any future assistance would be discussed openly before money changed hands.
Our relationship with Vanessa remained strained.
I answered her messages, but I wasn’t ready to return to our old closeness. I needed time to process the fact that she had
