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If you want a healthy long-term relationship, you can’t pick and choose which pieces of your partner’s past to accept while dismissing others (like that one particularly loathsome cunt they almost proposed to in college) as repugnant or unmentionable.

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1. They tend to be the strongest, kindest and most put-together people you know.

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Things got so bad that I legitimately contemplated suicide. Everything I knew, my entire world, was complete misery. I dreaded going to school.