“If someone makes you doubt yourself, if someone makes you feel like you’re too much to handle or you’re hard to live with, ask yourself if it’s really you or is it because that person is incapable of loving you? Is this person just making excuses because they’re looking for a way out? Is this person struggling with self-love? Is this person using you for their own validation without considering how you really feel?”

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