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Loving people without losing yourself
For the sting of being left out, the cost of keeping the peace, and learning where you end.
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Maybe someone stopped reaching out. Chose someone else. Changed toward you. Did not invite you. Did not respond the way you hoped. Or maybe nothing obvious happened, but you can feel the distance and your mind keeps trying to explain it. You may start searching for what is wrong with you: Was I too much? Not enough? Too needy? Too quiet? Too emotional? Too different?
Inside this collection
Sometimes being left out does not just hurt because you wanted to belong—it makes you start searching yourself for the reason you were not chosen.
When one change in someone’s tone makes your whole body start searching for what you did wrong.
When saying no feels cruel even when saying yes is costing you.
When a simple no turns into a paragraph because you need them to understand that you are still a good person.
When the person is still alive, but the relationship you knew is gone.
When loving someone and being harmed by the relationship are both true.
When disagreement feels less like a conversation and more like an emergency in your body.
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