Dear mpv:
This is a powerful statement: “the thought of cutting him completely out of my life feels like losing an arm or leg”- a strong attachment there.
You wrote that he is an emotionally crippled man. I think that most people are. Didn’t start that way, but made so early on. I think that old lovers can really be friends, absolutely. As long as it is a win-win friendship where you help each other, it is a friendship worth having.
anita