He Is Not Gone Forever
There are ways to reply when someone has said something about you, and remember it is not something good.
It is something you know about yourself and you have admitted it to yourself. But when someone tells you about it, all you want to do is stand up and tell them they have no idea what they are talking about while the bottom line is you know they are right and they know they are right.
They are people who are close to you that they know you have no one around you.
They are the people who know you used to have someone and you pushed them away.
They know that others try as much as possible to be there for others, but they get pushed away, they get hurt, they heal and then they go back. The people who know you well know you are the kind of person who does that.