“I just can’t break up with her. It’s going to break her heart, and I can’t do that to her. She can’t handle it.” When clients in my groups say things like this, I often highlight the care-taking by exaggerating it. “You’re right. They probably can’t handle that. How could you do that to them? The only reasonable and honorable thing to do is to stay with her. Eventually you should marry her and have children.”
