causing further loss when already failing to bring any benefit; backfiring

failure is a stepping stone to success

end, conclusion / end-of-life, death

failure, miscarriage / mistake, fault, error

fail / make a mistake

to end, to finish, to quit / to be in a hopeless position

end; conclusion; finish / death; collapse; fall

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend