Inside the Chrysalis
A supportive space, resource, and community for women blindsided by a breakup/divorce.
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The Photos I Kept of Him (opens the original)
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Signs It Was an Avoidant Discard (opens the original)
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His breakup speech lasted only minutes, but those minutes changed my relationship with my memory and my ability to trust what I thought was real.When I use the words avoidant discard, this is what I’m talking about…being deeply embedded into their life and then abruptly removed from it, with no warning, no real conversation, and no room for your reality.These are the parts of that experience I keep coming back to.1. There’s no co-processing, just their unilateral decisionThe moment he said it, I
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