[paraphrased] When your counterpart in a relationship doesn’t know that you are feeling less than equal, it doesn’t mean that the relationship itself is over. That is when you should help yourself so you can come back to the relationship feeling equal.

One of my favourite movie quotes that casually imparts one of the most fundamental life lessons. Too often we assign the burden of our internal conflicts on external factors and circumstances. Thinking that if only the outside influence was changed, our lives would improve. But in reality, only when we wrestle with and process our inner dilemmas; like and feel secure with who we are and how we got here; can we truly distinguish the real data points from the noise.

The journey to improvement always starts from within, not without.