Excerpt: "...What if you let the room sit with the awkward silence instead of filling it with euphemisms? What if you said the true thing before you'd figured out how to make it palatable? What if your words matched your actual capacity, and the gap between what you promise and what you can deliver finally closed — even if that meant promising less, offering less, being less endlessly accommodating?..."

Excerpt: "...The loyalty that defined you was real. You meant it. But loyalty that only flows one way does not constitute a bond. It's a drain. And this New Moon is asking whether you're ready to find out which of your relationships can survive by remaining mutually beneficial. Some will. Some won't. The ones that don't were already over — they were just waiting for you to keep paying while they worked out their exit. For you, the moment of truth is always brutal..."

Excerpt: "....You overshoot, underprice, throw generosity around like you're trying to prove something. To whom? What exactly are you trying to demonstrate with all this lavish, unreciprocated giving? That you're not like the ones who withheld from you? That you're above keeping score? That you're so bloody evolved you don't need something as grubby as fair exchange? How's that working out for you??..."