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As you know, most of the things that require assembly, life, and you purchase something that

you have to put together, always comes with instructions, assembly instructions,

and those are helpful if it's a toy, right, or furniture, or one time I purchased, I made the

mistake of purchasing a grill instead of getting the grill already assembled. I thought I'm just

going to buy the box. I can do this and go home and do this. And I say $50. And by the time the grill

was almost finished, Sandra would have paid someone $250 if I had just paid somebody else to put

the grill together because it was kind of a disaster. But the point being the grill, anything you

purchased to assemble, it comes with assembly instructions, but they never include fix it instructions.

Instead, they include these. You see this all the time, right? We've included a troubleshooting

guide, a troubleshooting guide, which for me is generally worthless because the trouble that they

are shooting is never the trouble I'm actually having, right? But generally speaking, we are far

better at assembling things than we are at fixing them. And that includes relationships as well.

We're good at starting relationships. We're pretty good at maintaining relationships. But when a

relationship breaks or when a relationship gets awkward or there's that silence or there's

that distance, oftentimes we just aren't sure what to do. But that doesn't stop us from doing

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