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Welcome to another show of The Overwhelmed Brain.

I am your hopefully beloved host.

I've been here for, what, 12 years now going on 12 years.

Go Paul.

And I'm going to do a grab bag episode today, kind of answering a bunch of questions that I've received over the years.

We'll start with this one.

What do you think about relationships that are on and off constantly for years?

Do they ever work?

And they went on to say, when you keep going back to someone after months apart and finally feel like maybe you're moving on and maybe this relationship isn't going to work, but

then something happens and it pulls you back in, how do you know if you should end the cycle

or if the relationship can actually work?

Well, I'll give you my personal opinion.

I've done long-distance relationships before.

I've done two of them.

One ended in a marriage, and one ended with another marriage.

I guess you can look at it that way.

My last marriage didn't make it, and this marriage did.

So I am currently in a relationship that started off long distance. It did not do the on and off

thing. So I don't even think you said that. I think in your original email you actually said long

distance. That's why I brought it up. But that's typically what I see. The on and off relationships,

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