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Episode 15: Great Expectations - When People You Love Disappoint You

Help Me Be Me

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Is It Possible to Be Happy With Someone You Don't Know?

You're never going to decide your actions based on this other person's feelings, because you don't know what they are. Ah, this is just about what do i want for my life, period. Just remind yourself of that, and start to take steps to empower yourself to even tolerate being around this person. Even if this person is kind of almost intolerable, there is something you can do, in a distant kind of way, to enjoy just having them in your life. You might not value it now, but you might value it in 50 years from now. And the only power you have is over yourself and your feelings. So you get to decide how to feel, even based on

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