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Chuck Waters is a writer in coastal Georgia exploring midlife, relationships, forgiveness, and what it means to live more intentionally. More of his writing lives at ChuckWatersAuthor.com.

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Why We Keep Accepting the Same Painful Relationship Patterns

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” ~George Santayana

I was gone about two hours.

I’d gone to see my stepbrother, who lived nearby. My girlfriend didn’t want to come, so I told her to rest, and I’d be back soon.

When I got back to my father’s property, where we lived in the camper we’d bought together, it was gone. So was she.

She’d packed my clothes into a bag and left them on my father’s porch on her way out. That told me everything I needed to know. The camper was the only place …