I mean in his defense, if they were just friends, this would have been okay. He's moving on with his career and that is natural. He is not without fault as he himself did not set boundaries but the CEO friend did also abuse that friendship and work relationship by not setting those boundaries as well. The CEO friend has always been taking, if he tried to see things outside his bubble, maybe he would have noticed things and connect some hints. He is only doing it now because the comfort he has been abusing just got lost.
It may be viewed as selfishness but it can also be called self preservation and/or self respect.
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Maybe this is a hot take but I honestly see the secretary guy to be selfish. He harbored feelings for ceo guy for 10 years, giving up on his love from the very beginning because he knows that ceo had already fallen in love way before that, and now he just up and left. I understand wanting to cut ties to “free” yourself from the pain of an unrequited love, but bro. Do not forget that he viewed you as his closest friend. While you’ve been suffering with these feelings, ceo guy has been forming such strong attachments to you in the form of friendship. Not only that, but he trusts you so much that he relies on you for work and for his personal life, like his feelings or whatever. He doesn’t make you do everything simply because he thinks you’ll simply do it or that he, himself, cannot do it, but because he trusts you to do it. And if you didn’t want to confess your feelings out of fear of risking the friendship, then why did you just throw the entire relationship away? It begs the question of whether you actually treasured the friendship or not. Did you really treasure him or did you just chalk him up to someone you “loved” and could just leave to save yourself. Not only this stuff, but you also already decided shit for him. Yeah he was in love with someone else, but you didn’t even give him an inkling to your feelings. People here may say that ceo guy didn’t care, but I hugely disagree. Like what he said in the most recent chapter, he never asked because he just expected secretary guy to say something at some point. Why? Because he TRUSTS HIM. It’s like when you know your friend is queer despite them not coming out yet, but you keep that knowledge to yourself and TRUST that they will come out to you when they are ready. He simply did what he always did and trusted the secretary guy to come to him whenever he’d be comfortable. And also, if I were to find out that my friend of over 10 years was in love with me the entire time, I would NEED to have a CONVERSATION. Like genuinely what the hell. You weren’t the only person in this friendship. You owe it to him to at least talk if you were planning to leave, just like any relationship, whether familial, platonic, or romantic. The point is that it’s a relationship between TWO PEOPLE, not just one person to make every single decision.
This isn’t even everything I wanna say, but this is all I will say because girl don’t even.