Re: Sam A/Lou D
You didn't cheat on Cris. He knew the relationship was open, you didn't foist that on him.
To be blunt, Meredith was, before her unfortunate situation at the present, a terrible, bitchy human being who no one liked except Neil. I will do everything I can to help her out of respect for him, and out of empathy for what's happened to her, but she was not a nice person.
You had been through so much by then already. Things I can't tell you about, and I won't. But if all this has come from Cris and Meredith, who have agendas of their own, I want you to keep in mind before you accept what they have to say as gospel, and think about how differently several different people would describe a person they cared about if they were dead or went missing. You're hearing the retrospective judgement of people who are not and will never be objective. We all have our prejudices. Don't let them create a single picture for you of the person you were.