Why You Shouldn’t Try to Convince Anyone They’re Good Enough for You
Take their word for it and move on.
No breakup explanation sounds more like bullshit than “I’m not good enough for you.”
Or it’s identical twin, “you’re too good for me.”
When you’re still in love and looking forward to making it work, your immediate instinct is to try to disprove that theory. Your immediate response is to fight back by claiming you’re the only one who can decide who’s good enough for you and who isn’t.
So you set out to prove them wrong.
You bend over backward to make them feel worthy of you. You reassure them over and over again how much they make you happy despite the fact that they have stopped making an effort about two major fights and one heated argument ago.
A strange dance begins. As they further reduce their efforts in an attempt (not always conscious) to prove to you how not good enough they are, you insist on only seeing their redeeming qualities — which are becoming rarer by the minute.
The problem is, you want them to want to become good enough for you, but they don’t want the trouble.
All they want is a way out, but for some reason, they are incapable of standing up for themselves and demanding a…
