If you leave him you will learn to be yourself again: You’ll pick up the hobbies you dropped off, re-connect with old friends and move cautiously back into yourself. You’ll go to work and feel productive. You’ll go out dancing and feel sexy. You’ll remember that you had a life before him and you can have another life after him, too. A different life. A better life, even.

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