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Your partner should respect your right to have friendships outside of the relationship.

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Not everyone will treat you poorly.

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Don’t give in to feeling guilty.

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You are better than them and worth more, hell, deserve more.

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You can scream at them, you can curse them out, or you can calmly present facts to them — but it’s not going to make a difference. They have a talent for shapeshifting reality. They create their own truth.

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Good people don’t play with others’ feelings. Good people don’t manipulate. Good people don’t lie to get what they want.

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Not everyone who rejects you is a bad person.

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It doesn’t matter whether you’re a skeptic or a romantic. It doesn’t matter whether you usually keep your guard high or wear your heart on your sleeve. Either way, there is going to be a time when you fall for the wrong person — and when that happens, you can’t be too hard on yourself.

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It wasn’t your job to fix them, so stop feeling like you’ve failed. Stop telling yourself they would have changed if they loved you enough, if they wanted your relationship to work badly enough, because it’s not the truth.

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You feel tremendously guilty if you believe that you’ve hurt anyone in any way.