what I came to do.” She should express her gratitude for what their relationship has given her and tell him she will always cherish the memory of their time together. She asks me, “I need to do it today, right?” “You’ll have to do it many days,” I tell her. “You’ll have to learn to extract yourself from him. And it won’t be easy. Sometimes it will feel like a root canal. He’s become such a presence in your life that when you don’t see him, at first you’ll walk around numb and empty. This is to be expected and it may take time.” In some situations, this process can be a matter of a single
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