I think he's a fool to go back. I don't know anyone who's broken up and got back together again who've ultimately ended up together. Also, if I was one of his friends who'd had to comfort/support him, listen to him go on endless about how terrible he was feeling, and tell him 'he's a pig who doesn't deserve you anyway' etc. then I'd be very peed off to find out that was all an unnecessary waste of time. If I knew someone who's done what Aled is doing then I'd make it clear to them that next time they got dumped they'd be on their own. Life is much too short for pointless emotional dramas. Plus there's a humilation factor there, given that Aled made it clear to everyone that he was the dumpee, dumped because his bf had 'fallen out of love with him', so the fact that he's run back to him makes it look like he's so desperate to be with him that he'll let his bf treat him as badly as he wants and he'll still come crawling back. I don't post much on here, and this is my longest post to date, but being quite an unemotional person myself I get so wound up over the idiotic things people can do when they're blinded by emotions/love.