sunk costs in relationships

Make Your Damn Bed · Jun 26, 2026 · 6m

(rerelease) People seem to think because they have invested months or years of time into a person that they shouldn’t give up on the potential for them to change, when their current reality is miserable and undeniably better if they cut ties.

I have heard countless friends justify staying too long bad relationships with “but we’ve been together for so long” or “I’ve put so many years into this,” or and “we’ve worked so hard at it,” or “We just have so much history”

The key to not falling victim to the sunk cost fallacy is by being real with yourself about the reality of your current state and…