Deterioration of character happens slow and in small increments.
We don’t completely go out of character in one go, it’s a result of the small changes we see in ourselves and choose to ignore.
Thinking you are still in our while things keep going south the biggest culprit.
Anything out of character needs to be addressed and squashed out quickly and the only way to do that is through having a difficult conversation with the one person who’s always there every night when you go to bed, yourself.