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  • Post category:Confidence / Positive change / Relationships / Self-esteem
  • Post published:June 11, 2013

If you don’t want to do something that your friends want you to do, you can choose not to do it. You shouldn’t have to do anything that you don’t want to do. If they are really your friends they should respect you and not make you do things that make you uncomfortable.

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