Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.
Have you noticed that women who don't accept disrespect, dishonesty, or manipulation, are often labelled as difficult, toxic, crazy, bitter, or complicated?
They learned to do women's nose jobs, breast implants, bbl, lengthen legs, hair extensions, eyelashes and nails, remove hair all over the body with laser, do artificial tanning, cut out the labia majora, but they still haven't invented a cure for endometriosis
One of the hardest forms of detachment is detaching from the man who STILL wants you, but cannot meet the level of partnership your soul is actually built for.