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It breaks us in a way different from any kind of heartbreak. It changes the person we are and affects the person we are to become.

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But what happens when you do find that special person and you still live in the echo of your parents relationship? That crappy place where you never want to end up again.

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No one told me that when I got divorced it would feel like I divorced my children, too.

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Because of them, you aren’t afraid to leave unhealthy relationships behind. You won’t let anyone treat you like crap, because you know that walking away is always an option.

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Happily ever after; That’s the stupid phrase we use to determine whether a relationship was “successful”. Ever after, means the princess and prince made it in the end. And many of us still judge relationships by that naïve, simplistic criteria.

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We face our problems head on, and we know how to function under messy conditions, in fact, we are superb at it.