Antonio Pascual-Leone

You know, the why question is never a real question when people want to know why.

It's not a real question.

It's a rhetorical question.

Right.

It's I don't want to break up.

But in any case, I was really hooked on why.

And she said to me, well, you're just not good at getting stuff done, which was yikes.

It was right, right in my soft spot.

Right.

Because I had my own doubts.

I had my own things.

I was struggling.

I was young.

I wasn't, you know, wasn't always very assertive and was having trouble getting

you know, um, blossoming into the kind of person I wanted to be.

So, I mean, that was particularly difficult.

Uh, it's kind of like a mercy killing really, cause it also helped and the relationship.

Um, but, uh, ending the relationship, I think this is to your point, ending the relationship left me with a wound that, uh, that no longer was related to the loss of the person, but was an injury to my, my sense of self.

Yeah, I mean, so there's a couple of things going on, right?

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