What It’s Like To Date Someone With An Eating Disorder
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Julia Austin
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Don’t force her to break her habits
You might think you can just force your partner to break her habits—like force her to stay in bed cuddling in the morning when she’d usually get up and run five miles—and if she could just see how good it felt, she’d be healed. But it doesn’t work that way. If you try to force your partner to break a habit, even if you know it’s for her own good, she will panic and then become angry with you. She needs to hit her own breaking point, and stop these habits in her own time. Let her go for the morning run; trying to stop her will only make her feel like you’re the enemy.
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