Button nodded again, swallowing as Apple Bloom squeezed him tightly for support again, knowing exactly what was coming next.  "That was the moment I knew I had to end the relationship.  I was bad for you.  It wasn't that you weren't good enough.  It wasn't that I cheated on you.  It was that I was holding you back.  If you turned down a record deal just to stay in Ponyville with me, I don't think I could have bared to look at myself in the mirror.  I loved you then, and I still do now.  Even right now, as I look at you, my heart still skips a beat, but I couldn't live with myself knowing I held you back from your potential."  Button could feel the first tears begin to stream down his face.  "I knew then, that even if you hated me, even if you never wanted to see me again, even if you spent every single day telling everyone I was the bastard who broke your heart, that I had to do what was best for you and end the relationship."