Musing on my own tendency to let this cycle repeat for way too long before the necessity of booting my partner off a cliff finally dawns on me. Just divorce things. The unedited Kirk would never have extended his hand to this dweeb more than once. I gotta figure out how to be more Kirk. - ThreadSky

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carbonel-broom.bsky.social • 11 hours ago

Musing on my own tendency to let this cycle repeat for way too long before the necessity of booting my partner off a cliff finally dawns on me. Just divorce things.

The unedited Kirk would never have extended his hand to this dweeb more than once.

I gotta figure out how to be more Kirk.

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carbonel-broom.bsky.social•10 hours ago

"It will be fine to stay friends, though," I said to myself after packing my bags and leaving with the last shreds of my life's savings, "because, as a friend, I will need less from them, and they can meet those lesser needs."

carbonel-broom.bsky.social•10 hours ago

But with some people, you truly cannot lower your bar enough. With some people, you have to accept that realising they can get you to continuously lower your bar in order to keep them in your life is, in itself, a significant part of the appeal of keeping you around. It makes them feel powerful.

carbonel-broom.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It's time for therapy, because every major relationship in my life has ended with me realising this like it's a fresh surprise, starting with my relationship with my late mother, and most recently descending into the crisis shenanigans of trying to divorce one of these fuckers.

carbonel-broom.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I can't do this again. Paging Dr Freud; there is an emergency case in your waiting room.

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