Need to figure out how to move forward (thread #4)

[Train]

Yep. And also avoid any more R talks! No more of those. Ya know why? Because even though everything you have to say is valuable, each time you two talk about your relationship, it digs the ugly parts up - AGAIN - and makes the *negative* the focus.

You don't want THAT, do ya?

It's time to STFU and be the best d@mn sho you can be: a H that only a fool would leave.

I need to exude confidence and be attractive without pursuing her.
Precisely.