No " give up" I think, and this is what D B moves towards. Gradually the process of looking at oneself and making the realizations, seeing past behaviours and refusing to get sucked in, leads you to a place where you are okay to continue to hope for R and work towards R, but okay if you don't.
It's not a new path, it is the same one traveled with different eyes and a lighter heart.
At least this is where I feel I am going. That said, for whatever reason, when I realized this, everything got harder.. So there is no give up or dig in, there is just, at the end of the day, you.
