The Stages of Surviving an Avoidant Ex

Maybe Hate Is the Last Stage Before Letting Go of your Avoidant Ex

Healing Made Me Less Social, Not More Lonely Arthur Schopenhauer wrote: "A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. For the more he has in himself, the less he will want from other people." For a long time, I thought this was about intelligence. Now I think it can be about healing. The more I have healed, the less I need from other people. That doesn't mean I dislike people. It doesn't mean I think I'm better than anyone else. It simply means that I no long

Getting over a dismissive avoidant can feel horrific. It has taken me decades to truly understand and process what happened to me — the incredible connection, the passion, the intensity, followed by the discard, the confusion, the breadcrumbing. My nervous system was shot to pieces. My mental health collapsed. I was prescribed psychiatric drugs that only added another layer of suffering through side effects, withdrawals, and emotional numbness. For years, I lived in apathy.