I try to look at every experience (good or bad) as an opportunity to learn, both about myself and the world.
                        
                        
                        When you end up having to end a relationship, do you look at it as time wasted or do you try to keep the positives?
01/19/2012
			        
			        
                
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                        If the relationship was overall bad, I might consider it time wasted, at least briefly. But most of the time I can look back on these things and see them as time well spent, because whatever may have you will take lessons from it.
                        
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                                            js250
                                        
                                        
                                            
                                                
                                    
                                
                                                    After 15 years, I am calling it quits. There are so many factors involved but basically right now I feel as if I have wasted 15 years of my life. A lot of that is hurt and pain, some of it is retrospect and the rest... I don't know. I have
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                                                    After 15 years, I am calling it quits. There are so many factors involved but basically right now I feel as if I have wasted 15 years of my life. A lot of that is hurt and pain, some of it is retrospect and the rest... I don't know. I have learned a few things, some not good, some fun and will carry with me in the future and others...I would rather never have had to learn.
For those in the process and those who have moved on..what did you get out of the relationship? less
                                            
                                        For those in the process and those who have moved on..what did you get out of the relationship? less
05/05/2012
			        
			        
                
                        I try to look at the positives. It's hard, and usually it hurts for a while, but I feel like I definitely learn something from each of my relationships.
                        
                        
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