I’ve shed a lot of fake friends and family to be standing where I am today.
I suggest you do the same.
You don’t owe anyone anything.
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It will be hard sometimes, especially when dealing with people you genuinely care about. But is worth it in the long run. Setting boundaries is a lost skill in our techno-saturated era.
Bro, so true.
I learned this very early as a kid with a loser biological father and a great adoptive father.
Relationships that are only a result of shared DNA, and friendships where values and shared interests have diverged, should be quickly discarded.
People think it’s “blood is thicker than water”
But the original expression is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb”
Real bonds are formed over shared experiences, not necessarily familial relationships.
