"That's our secret."

Heck, so now I can't blog about it.

Actually, when she first told me I didn't quite hear her. I pieced some possibilities together and then honed in on it with two questions.

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It's tough when you've spent so much time and effort into trying to make someone happy, to the point where you're no longer happy and you have to finally decide that you deserve to be happy to, so you stop trying to make that other person happy and then focus on yourself.

Some might think that you should always do more for others than you do for yourself. Some might call it selfish; I'd call it survival.