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Relationship decisions

Stay-or-leave, forgive-or-confront, boundary-or-punishment — relationship dilemmas worked through with the Gita, with worked examples.

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You keep the peace. They keep the pattern.

You've absorbed every slight for years and called it maturity. A composite dilemma, read on four lenses, to tell equanimity you chose from avoidance you're hiding behind.

The friend who only calls when they're drowning

A fifteen-year friendship that only flows one way, read through four of the eight lenses — where non-harm and honesty openly disagree, and the resentment turns out to be a bill.

They apologized. Why does it still feel unfinished?

A sibling sends a flawless apology after breaking a promise — and accepting it feels like swallowing a stone. We separate the three things that stone actually is, and why two lenses openly disagree.

Forgive, or just stop bringing it up?

The fight ended months ago, but the flinch didn't. A composite couple shows why 'I let it go' and 'I stopped counting out loud' look identical from the outside and rot in opposite directions.

Should I stay or leave? What eight lenses see

A three-year relationship, one person quietly keeping score, and the stay-or-leave question that turns out to be a disclose-or-don't question in disguise. KarmaLens asks the decisive unknowns first, then makes one call it does not renegotiate.