Gabriel Mizrahi

with more conscious awareness, deciding whether you still want to play it out, whether playing it out truly serves your needs, your goals, your best interests, including, by the way, your safety, which, by the way, I think you're also in the process of getting clear on.

Look, there's an easy take on her story, which is she got together with her mother and her boyfriend got together with the father he didn't have.

Facts.

I'm also confident that there's a lot more to it than that.

But the roots of this dynamic seem fairly clear to me.

This is the dark side of your mom, bro.

This is not news to our friend.

She clearly understands that her mom did a number on her.

Exactly.

Different objects, but same eggshells, probably.

What she might not fully understand is why that's been hard to rewrite, let alone heal.

and how that has created this extremely powerful template that she seems to have recreated with the wheat prince over here.

how much of it is actually creating versus just falling into something that feels oddly familiar.

But what I am sure of is this is not an accident.

Look, my quick theory a moment ago about this being gratifying, that might not be the right one or there might be more to it.

Maybe there are other things this relationship is giving you.

Maybe the moments of love and connection with this guy, which I'm not fully clear on, but if they exist...

Maybe those are so compelling to you that the moments of chaos and pain seem worthwhile, although I have a very hard time imagining how that could be the case.

But I'm sure there's a lot going on here, but this is the kind of stuff you have to dig into.

Frankly, I think you're already at least halfway there, but it's time to really take stock of this.