More fictional writing.  

He did not leave to save her.

He did not leave because he thought she deserved more.

He did not leave her for her own sake.

He left to save himself.

He left to serve himself.

He left to erase his past instead of face it.

He could not forgive himself.

He said he could not out run his past.

Who can?

He was too afraid to dig in and live up to his promise.

He was too afraid of what he could not say.

He did not love her.

It was easier to erase and replace than to heal.

It was not a hero’s story.

What he tells himself and his reasons was the path out.

Abuse, deciept and cruelty was how he broke her down.

And he did break her down.

In the cruelest of ways.

He pushed her to be something that she was not and used it to leave her.

He left ruins of pain, he left a path of victims.

He became what she called him.

He hated it because it was true.

He was and became his father.