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uh a version of it myself um my on again and i think i've gotten close to telling her that we are no longer together but i keep unfolding every three to six months when she keeps back up and you know and why do you do that to yourself why do you do that to yourself um that's a good question i think well why don't you sit quietly for a moment and think
We don't need to talk about her. If this is in any way destructive and useless and just a cycle of the same sick stuff, then you have to really stop, introspect, and determine why you volunteer each time. That's a good point. And after going through introspective thoughts, I guess I would like to
and kind of like not respond to it. But for some reason... Sir, you're not answering my question. Everybody says, I would like to be better. I would like to do better. I would like to eat better. I would like to exercise better. Those statements are useless. The more important one is you volunteer each time she bounces back. What do you gain from that? How is that good for you? What makes you continue helping the cycle go on? This is about you, not her.
Okay. Okay. That's a good point and perspective. And I think that will help me a little bit for the next time. Hopefully there'll be no next time. Of course there'll be a next time. You make sure there is, because you have given her a place to come to, to go through it yet again.
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Because you like the feeling. I see. I see. So I'm not telling you to stop. You can recycle her till you're dead. It's okay, as long as you're clear on why you're doing it. And it's not that something is being done to you. You're grateful for the opportunity to feel needed, even by a flake. Do you think that's something from my early childhood? It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter. Okay.
Okay. Because you're a grown man, almost 60. And now that you know that it's useless for helping her, but it makes you feel good. And that's a need you want to have fulfilled in a very unhealthy way. That's what you need to think about. And then to consider what would be a healthier way out in the world to feel needed, wanted, valuable, purposeful, useful, find some other way.
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