Firstly: do you wish your partner would come back, traumatic though it almost always was to live with that person? Do you think you might have made a mistake to leave? You put off making changes because you know he or she might not approve... For example, a woman thinks of sending her child away to a boarding school. He'll be safer from the abusive father there, and the standard of education will be better. Yet she procrastinates, puts off changing his school, because she knows that his father wouldn't agree, would fly into a rage if she sent their boy away. Even though she's left the boy's
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