Uh, was this happening whilst you were in your previous relationship, or was it after the relationship, the previous relationship finished that you had time to really reflect, or was it kind of emerging all the way through?

So I think the break point was I was in a really, really toxic, narcissistic relationship, and I was beginning to develop self-awareness and recognize that, um, it wasn't healthy what I was in.

And it, and I started to recognize not my role or, uh, in this particular relationship, it wasn't the role, um- That I was facilitating or was the instigator of arguments.

I had...

I was very passive in my space, and I was absorbing all of this narcissistic, toxic, game-playing sort of, um, s- information from my partner.

Um, and an example would be that, um, I was bowled over by the fact that he had a lot of finances, and he used to be very, um, generous with his finances.

But at the same time, um...

Mm.