Sometimes, after a break up, you get that rare chance to sit down with the person in question and talk through a postmortem of what went wrong.

Too Independent

Translation of the above: “I’ve come to realize that I need to date a lost, sniveling, codependent shell of a woman, so that I don’t feel threatened and can keep her coming back. What I really don’t want is someone who can take care of herself. The fact that she considers herself whole without me totally destroys my perception of self, which is that I need to be bigger than you.”

“. . . . . . . . Right.”