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miss communicat lol....at first, the Buddha wasn't a buddha either. That's why he had to detach from his family and friends and go sit under that tree for so long~
True, true. But he also knew it was the right thing to learn to do, so was worth the tree-sitting, the demons swirling around him trying to change his mind.
I guess I was never convinced that staying with my X - who had a completely different set of values, to put it nicely - was the right thing to do with my 80-odd years (if I'm lucky) on the planet. Maybe that's the difference.
Stay with a yeller, an abuser, a cheater? No amount of detachment in the world could drown out the cries of my true self, wasted in a relationship like that.
Om.