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When you’re a fixer, it’s hard to convince yourself it’s time to stop, it’s time to step back, it’s time to give up.

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I wish love alone could heal you, bring you back to life, to your normal-self. I wish love could make you feel whole again. I wish it could give you all the answers.

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Fixing someone means staying when they’re used to people leaving.

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Don’t fix me, she says, love me.

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Love is not a power play, not roles and dynamics and shoes you must fill. You don’t need to become something better just to have someone’s affection, even if the other person’s intentions are pure. And you can’t make someone change for your reasons, or even the right reasons.

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The truth is, when you try to fix something that is already broken, you’re settling for something that is so frail that it could easily break again. You’re settling for something that could potentially break you.

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I will be my own savior. And he will be his own savior. And we will both be beautiful.

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Looking differently didn’t make me more valuable. It didn’t make me a better human being. And it absolutely did not change my relationship with myself.