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I'm glad to hear you guys are back together and trying to make things work again. All I can say is that I hope things work out.
I have responded a second time in the LL to your girlfriend's post, and in a sense, to your last here. Thank you for being so open and honest with the TFP, even though at the moment you sound a little defensive about the situation, remember that you asked us for your opinion - and we gave it to you. No-one means to meddle, just to help.
I do find it intriguing how different the response in the LL was to the one here - and I think that has upset you. My response in the LL was the same one as it was here. That there has to be compromise in this kind of situation, that seems so invisible but is actually a fragile one. You say you don't think you should have to...but I think you know that if you really want your relationship to work out, then someone will have to compromise, somewhere, somehow.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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