[Al clenched his fists...and through lots of effort breathes]

Look! I'm not saying that wasn't a major fuck up, no matter who it actually was.

But you also played a part of this, and if we keep this up, we will hurt everyone close o us!

[Al takes another breath his tone has been getting softer, as he goes along]

The app usually finds a way to bring the worst of us out. Can you accept that I was in a really dark place then?

I didn't give you an answer when you asked on the network because I thought she needed to know my story and understand what happened, not you.

So when you came at me on the network, I saw it as none of your business because you weren't there, and you doing what you did right after I tried to be discreet to save you face, yeah, that pissed me off.

Because I could chose to hold you attacking me over your head, but I don't, because I know how much the app can hurt us, or change us and I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt.

Could you find it in you to try to understand the dark place I came from then? And what haunts me still?