whiplash endured

It's hard to know how to feel. When you get pulled back and forth by someone you care so much about. They've hurt you, you've hurt them. Both make mistakes daily and do their best to show they care. When you find out that you have something hard, something you wish no one would ever have to go through, in common... What then? How then does the situation change? What is to be made of it other than a deeper understanding of the individual? The walls he hides behind now have canvases upon them. It makes you hurt for him, it brings up things you thought were behind you. This time though it isn't as hard, knowing he's been through it too. It angers you to know how he was treated, what he has felt because of others. The ways he lashes out are clearly products of what he's endured. He's starting to make a little sense.