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If she's angry with you, if she's hurt, if she feels abandoned, you know, that's going to be the cost of getting to get out.

I don't think you can try to leave and make sure she thinks well of you.

And I feel like that's kind of why you wrote this letter, which is like I love her. I wish I could stay with her. I don't really believe I can talk her out of doing this, but I want her to understand why I'm leaving, and I just, I don't think you can ask for that. I think the most you can ask for in this situation is to maintain your own boundaries and not become apparent. To listen to the rest of that conversation,

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