Is this the end of us? Hex 22.2.4 to 14

[TannaT]

Dear community, I am helping out another friend with a reading and would like to know if I am interpreting this correctly. My friend recently cut things off with a businessman after he took advantage of her while they were working together. He basically offered to help promote her, then turned around and changed the script when she wouldn’t date him. Right now she’s angry and hurt, she really looked up to him until he pulled this on her. In a fit of rage, she cut him off on all social media accounts (except her personal phone number) and wanted to know if he got the sign from her and was going to be a decent enough person to apologize. She put so much work into this project with him and is hoping he will, so that she can move on and finish the work with him. If he doesn’t apologize, she said she would scrap it and start all over, even though starting over would be a major hassle. I take 22 to mean something related in the arts industry (she does work in visual design). Line 2, I think, means he’s a foolish man for even treating her that way, but line 4 seems to hint that he will come back and apologize at the right time. 14 is generally a positive outcome whether or not she gets an apology so if anyone can shed some light on this I would be grateful.

 

[Lavalamp]

Is this the end of "us?"
14 - the context is money and everything to do with success.
22.2 - Although something is looking good outwardly, inwardly it lacks substance.
22.4 - He doesn't want to obstruct her. He wants to marry her.
My takeaway is either he may not be able to do as much for her as it appears outwardly, or she may not be as good as she thinks. But he is sincerely interested in her.
If she wants to work with him but not date him, perhaps she might tell him maybe she cannot date him if they work together as this is a conflict of interest for her.
But the way you describe it - sounds like she was showing a casual interest in him to help her career - but he is playing for keeps. If this is the case, she needs to straighten that out herself - she may have hurt his feelings treating him like a robber when he had good intentions.
He isn't being blamed by the Yi here, it isn't critical of him on that level at all.

- LL

 

[TannaT]

Thank you so much lavalamp, I never would have thought to interpret it this way. In her words, she felt like she was being taken advantage of because she was promised an advertisement of sorts for her work, then he didn’t follow through when she said she couldn’t date him. In her mind she thought he would show up for her professionally, and he didn’t. If his intentions are truly good, I told her that he would come back and apologize.

 

[Lavalamp]

Well - taken advantage of how? She gave him what and he didn't do as promised?
And he could have not followed through for reasons of timing, not intentions...
She should be talking to him, not you I think.

- LL

 

[TannaT]

She paid him to do half of the work for a collaborative visual design project, and he said he would advertise it. She did the other half of the work. Then when he asked her out on a date halfway through their work together, and she said no, he flipped the script and said he didn’t do advertisements when she asked for a deadline on the day of the advertisement. Understandably she was upset, since she didn’t think he would behave this way, and wanted advice from a reading before she made any drastic changes. She doesn’t want to talk to him because he knows she is upset and hasn’t really done anything to rectify the situation. So she told me she cut him off on social media until he apologizes.