There's no absolute truth about whether the "work gap" or whatever will affect you. It's all about who you approach and how you spin it. Theoretically, when I

There's no absolute truth about whether the "work gap" or whatever will affect you. It's all about who you approach and how you spin it. Theoretically, when I got my first job at 21, the fact that I'd never worked for anyone else, never had a set office schedule, never worked in an office at all in fact... would have been a detractor. But I wrote a beautiful cover letter explaining just how well freelancing prepared me to be a take-charge, self-motivated, self-managing and flexible worker. See what I did there? You do the same. Plus you obviously demonstrate staying power. There are never enough good people to fill tech jobs. Finally, why would you feel disloyal to someone who was disloyal to you? You clearly tried to put more into the relationship than he did. You can only do so much. He decided the tone of your relationship, he decided how (little?) much you were worth to him, and that's that. He made his decision - exit with a clear conscience.