[ Oh yes because Erik is the bitter one. ]

Yes, I left. After getting shot at. After the navy fired nuclear warheads at us. I didn't see the point in staying around and finding out what else they had planned. But I did not take Raven. She chose to go with me. And you know why she made that choice.

[ Just as Erik knows why she left him, so many years later. ]

If that's all it took to break you, then you were too weak to survive anyway.