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Why we regret the energy we spent fighting reality

I keep thinking about how I wasted my whole marriage trying to change my ex instead of either accepting him or leaving sooner.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The mind suffers twice - once from what happened, and again from resistance to what happened.

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