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It’s Your Problem – Deal With It
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Being in a romantic relationship with someone is a beautiful thing. It is exhilarating, comforting, and deeply transformative.
Naturally, when you fall in love, you begin to adjust your life around the other person. You make sacrifices for your partner. Small compromises and grand gestures alike that you simply wouldn’t make for anyone else.
Sacrifice in love is natural, but only when it flows both ways. The trouble begins when those sacrifices become entirely unilateral.
You can be in a dedicated relationship and still feel completely single if you are the only one constantly giving, compromising, and bending.
Even worse, it is an isolating kind of heartbreak when you’re sitting right next to someone who claims to love you, yet you’re feeling entirely on your own. This emotional distance becomes excruciating especially when your vulnerability, kindness, and patience are routinely taken for granted.
Eventually, you have to stop and ask yourself the hard questions: What are you actually building? And why are you trying to give away to someone else the very peace, validation, and care that you desperately…
