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Apr 2023
54m 23s

When your happiness depends on and maybe...

PAUL COLAIANNI
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What happens when those you care about become jaded by your dependency on them for your happiness? Are you inadvertently wearing them down and dissolving what could be a great relationship? Sometimes we drain others and we don't even realize it. 
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