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When You're Just Trying to Make it Work...

8 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video titled "When You're Just Trying to Make it Work..." containing a personal monologue by Jeff Bezos recorded in March 2025. In this excerpt, Bezos reflects on the emotional toll of trying to maintain a relationship, the loss of self-identity, and his process of rediscovering personal values and setting non-negotiable boundaries for future relationships.

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When you spend so much time in a relationship trying to make it work, you give away so many pieces of yourself that by the end of it, I didn't know who I was anymore. I didn't recognize myself. Really? Yeah, my self-confidence, my sense of self, I had chipped away so much at myself in an effort to make it work that it took me a while, I think, to get back to like, okay, what do I need? What do I like doing? What are the things that I haven't been doing that I want to get back to? What are the things that I value? So I spent a lot of time by myself. And when I was thinking about my new relationship, I came up with a list of non-negotiables. There were a few things that I was like, I will not be in a relationship without them.