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I appreciate it. Okay. On with the show. How to stop abandoning yourself in relationships.

There is a very specific moment when you lose yourself.

If you thought about this, it's not really dramatic. I mean, there's like no music swelling in the background and all of a sudden, you're sitting across from someone that you love.

They ask you, hmm, what do you want for dinner?

And you say,

oh, I don't care, whatever you want, right?

But you do care.

You're actually starving for Thai food, let's say.

You've been thinking about it all day.

But somehow, in that small moment, you decide that

your preference wasn't worth the trouble. It's just one choice, right? I mean, just one dinner,

except it's never just one.

I'm Chad Lawson, and let's come it down in three, two, one.

Here's how it actually happens.

You say yes to plans when your body is screaming for rest. Or you laugh at a joke that actually hurt your feelings, right?

Or you apologize for being upset when you actually had every right to be.

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