Healing After Loving a Dismissive Avoidant What is there left to say after you’ve healed from a relationship with a dismissive-avoidant partner—after you finally realize that they were more unhealed than you? Honestly, not much. The pain they cause is indescribable. I carried it with me for decades after mine. For so long, I thought he was independent, strong, untouchable. But the truth was, he wasn’t running from me—he was running from his wounds. He loved me, but he didn’