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Why timing considerations delay necessary endings

I've been putting off breaking up with my boyfriend for four months because his whole family loves me and I don't want to hurt them right before his sister's wedding.

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Kindness toward peripheral parties prolongs suffering for primary relationships, making compassion cruel.

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