We, as individuals—and despite the intense protestations of our respective egos—are reduced to participants, and not directors, in our own story. Then there is the final element—surrender—and whether the relationship is one with a “significant other” or a parental one, it’s unavoidably a key ingredient in the soup. Releasing ownership and embracing relationship is, to be sure, a scary damn thing. But it is what makes having others in our life the most precious thing. It might be getting pretty obvious at this point that my aim for you is to bring a new outlook to your relationship with your
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