You keep giving in, just praying you don’t give out. Maybe one more time of extra grace from you. Maybe one more time rescuing them. Maybe one more time looking the other way and suddenly they will turn a corner and bring home base back to you. You know this isn’t the way that it works. But you want to believe that maybe this time it will. Maybe you’ll be the hero. Maybe they will be the exception. Maybe they’ll change. You hold up statements you believe to be true and preach them to yourself like a rallying cry. And then you drench your pillow once again because you know you can’t keep doing
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