Individuals can navigate a second relationship with agency and gratitude after negative experiences in a first relationship.

“But you can navigate the second because they're in a different place. They're coming through agency and gratitude instead of denigrating themselves. If you're what's wrong with me, what's wrong with everybody else, I'm here. Even though some bad things have happened to me, look at what I can bring myself to bear. I can go out there and try and find someone I can see with clear vision now. There's agency, there's gratitude, and then that p erson can go out and find relationship number two that's a really good one.”