I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.

I'm sort of a straight shooter.

I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

I am a straight shooter.

Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

But Mike is a straight shooter, and this is probably as good of a situation as it could be. This is one of the rational, reasonable ways you would think it would have to come to an end.