If I want to make real change in our relationship and I want to make like a genuine effort, it involves, of course, speaking my truth, letting it be known how I feel.

But it really involves me doing the work to be at a place where I feel like I'm doing my very best to keep my side of the street clean.

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Even though we're not. But anyways, happy you're here. It is. It's a good one. I'm really excited about this episode on change and really this is inspired by something that was really challenging in my life. And now I really use and apply it to my personal relationship with Justin and I'm trying to apply outside and it's related to the belief and understanding that we cannot change people.

We can only allow them to be and focus on ourselves.

It's one of the biggest lessons. I guess I told us into this. It's like one of the biggest lessons I've learned most recently and it's.

I didn't understand how deeply and great it was until I started to actually live it, especially in the new relationship. I'm like, oh my god.

I really do want to change a lot of people. Same me too. And also too with it's hard though. This is what's I mean, this is life.

But it's so hard with the change because it's like if I don't change in my settle, if I don't change them in my settling. Am I not getting what I want?

So there's such a balance between communication and letting someone evolve and step up to the plate and wanting someone to change because of fear or because of something inside you that that will never be fulfilled.

So it's always like the intention of why you want that change. And I think for me, it's like the expectation in any relationship that they will never change and to be pleasantly surprised if they do.

But I mean, I struggle with this literally on a daily basis.

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