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These are all acceptable things to “compromise” upon–not so when you give up something essential inn order to keep someone else happy, unthreatened or trying to meet their needs while ignoring yours.

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Stacy finally went to her dreamland, California, and returned terribly disappointed. She had always set up unreasonable expectations of some kind of paradise out there. Mason says now she sees her disenchantment as a metaphor for her whole life.

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I ignored the fact that I was losing myself in loving you.

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I don’t know why it always feels like a game that I must win.