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When you find yourself defending your partner's bad behavior

I keep making excuses to my family for why my girlfriend treats me badly in front of them and I am exhausted from defending behavior I know is wrong

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The energy spent protecting someone's reputation from their own actions reveals how we become complicit in our own diminishment.

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