Excerpt: "...any half-truth, any ambiguity, any “but I thought we had an understanding” gets shattered. You need clarity. You need leverage. And if someone can’t meet you there, they’re dead weight. This includes bosses, lovers, co-parents, anyone who’s been living off your infrastructure without paying rent—in any form...."

Excerpt: "...you’re starting to see the cracks. Not so much because you’re failing, but because the system you're trying to function under is under serious disrepair... And yet, somehow, the people around you are asking why you’re so absent, why you won’t “open up,” why you seem so distant when ..."

Excerpt: "You don’t need to abandon love. You don’t need to become cruel. But you do need to stop offering what has already emptied you. If that means disappointing someone who believes in your never-ending patience, your inexhaustible submissiveness, so be it...."