James' mother, Laura, was madly in love with his father, Kevin, to the point where she finally became psychotic.
Laura suspected that Kevin was having an affair and no longer loved her, and she was even jealous that James would steal Kevin's attention and time. Her love was so twisted that it was suffocating.
In the end, this crazy woman stepped on the gas on a rainy night and left the man she loved in the cold river permanently.
From then on, James became an orphan.
This incident had a huge impact on James. For a long time, James just locked himself in the house in silence, not interacting with anyone, not willing to build new relationships with others. It wasn't until I went to high school with him that he slowly got better.
I rubbed the back of his neck soothingly, and he buried his entire body in my arms, his voice hushed.
"I obviously told them before we dated that I needed my own personal space, and that I didn't like being controlled and interfered with in my relations. If they didn't accept that, they shouldn't have agreed to it.
"We just made a pact, but they started interfering in my personal affairs after we were together. On top of that, they wanted me to cut you off!"