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Know he has been so stressed all week. Only yesterday had told him it would be no problem to take any time off he needed.  Have been trying my absolute utmost to help and not to rise to anything he has thrown at me. Inevitably though, caught on hop and under huge pressure myself, bite back to one of the verbal attacks. The whole thing escalates and next thing I know, he has walked out. Absolutely devastated.  

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