Opposite of a Psychopath

After nine years together, she told him she'd had enough.
With his world falling apart, he did the only thing he knew how, and held it all together.
This is the story of why.
It is a story about his storylines; about how he created his reality to be what he wanted it to be, what he needed it to be, and what he thought it ought to be; all by what he told himself.
It is not a story about his actual reality, and it most certainly isn't about the truth.