In every relationship, we face a fundamental choice: will we be thermometers or thermostats?
Thermometers simply reflect their environment — rising and falling with each shift in emotional temperature around them.
Thermostats, by contrast, set the temperature, influencing the environment rather than being influenced by it.
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