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If you truly want to know someone, stand up for yourself.

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I’m suggesting men must do what men often do best: set goals and create a plan to achieve them.

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You started counting the fights. You started making me feel that your love for me was only as good as the times I did not become clingy.

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Often times, ladies, men seem to be distracting you from your concerns. To the contrary, they are engaged at a high level: they are negotiating an answer.

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Refuses to open up to you and tell you why he’s feeling the way that he feels.

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So what if you want to show some skin? He thinks you look sexy as hell and isn’t intimidated by other men seeing how great you look too.

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I hurt her badly, and hurt myself in the process.

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When you wanted to wear that skimpy crop top or cheeky bikini that made you look wayyyy older than your age.

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Survivors of domestic violence are not stupid, and we are not weak. We have simply tried too hard to love someone who is incapable of loving us back.

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You approach issues with “here’s how we got into this, and here’s how I’d like us to get out.”