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The problem with being a chronic people-pleaser who hates conflict is that life is nothing but constant
You only see relationships as taking from you. You bend, because you’ve been taught that if you don’t, a relationship will break. It won’t. You can say yes and then change your mind. You can say no and not have it kill you. Or them. You can negotiate boundaries and compromise.
She smiles beneath my thumb, and I’m lost. Maybe I always was. But this is the moment I know it, wholly and completely. There’s no recovering from her.