If you are ready to stop, then stop.
With family members who estranged me when I estranged my mother, it hurt for a while. I hoped they would see me and realise that what I had been saying was the truth.
Now I just feel, those relationships just can't be those close family relationships that I hoped for in parents and siblings... I finally just let go of them.
You can start to look at the other close relationships you have, and realise your real value.
I looked at all the amazing relationships I do have and realised those deserved all my emotional energy, not past relationships that made me deeply unhappy.
If you are ready to stop trying, I don't think its a bad thing
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