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What does it mean?
Enduring pain is preferable to the emptiness of starving for love when love demands too high a price.
In plain terms
Pain hurts, but going without love works if love costs too much.
What can you take from it?
Self-starvation may feel safer than costly love.

Where it applies

  • toxic relationship
  • isolation
  • choice

Putting it to work

  • assess love cost
  • choose boundaries

Questions to consider

  • Is this love worth the price?
  • What hurts more?

Another view

Starving does not actually work; it harms health.

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