Why Healing From Trauma While Dating Rarely Works

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But that makes him a lacking partner

If you think about it, all the things the person in therapy is doing for himself—prioritizing himself, attending to his own needs—those are exactly what someone must do to a relationship to help it thrive. But someone who is healing must only do that for himself right now. And he can’t do that for himself and a relationship at the same time.

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