Rather than getting used to their crap, why don't we just get used to ourselves. At least there won't be cheating, lies, manipulation, or carefully packaged confusion. No one standing there explaining how reacting to nonsense somehow makes us the problem. It won't be them calling us dramatic, it will just be us fully ozening our dramatic moments. And honestly, that feels cleaner. No more explaining how inconsiderate or cruel they were just to be heard. No more explaining why you are hurt or how they hurt you. Just you, your clarity, and your boundaries without a debate panel. Yes, we may gaslight ourselves into thinking there's still some good left in them. We might romanticize their bare minimum and call it "potential" just to stay hopeful. But we can also count on ourselves to eventually snap out of it and stop thinking like that.