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How do I get my ex back with no contact?

We broke up a couple of days ago and we went no contact, I really miss him and I want him back and I want to text him all the time. I’m not blocked or anything and he did watch me story too on his private account. How do I win him back? What do I do?
And DO NOT say “give up”, “move on”. Thank you.

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u/frognomnom — 11 hours ago
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No Contact

My (avoidant) boyfriend of almost a year broke up with me (anxious) about 3 weeks ago. The breakup came out of nowhere—he told me he loved me the night prior, we got into an argument the next morning that I still believe we could’ve recovered from, and then he told me it wasn’t working out. I was completely blindsided.

When he broke up with me, he immediately unfriended me on all social media. A little bit later he blocked me on Instagram, and just recently blocked me on TikTok. But before blocking me on TikTok, he sent me a random video which I didn’t respond to (read receipts turned off). Also, before blocking me on TikTok, he was reposting videos and commenting about our relationship. He also added a song to our shared playlist—it was a very malicious song.
All while I’ve been completely silent. Truly going no contact. I logged out of Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok the day we broke up so I wouldn’t be tempted to look at his accounts or interact with him in any way. Only way I knew he blocked me on the two accounts/sent me a video/reposting about our relationship was because I randomly logged into both, looked at my messages because I had some from other people and saw “No User Found”, and I was scrolling through my “For You” page where his reposts appeared. I never visited his profiles. I haven’t even attempted to text or call him.
I’ve been turning all of the attention to myself and my healing. So far, through my healing journey, I’m able to take accountability (not directly to him) for the things that I did that could’ve caused a change in our relationship. I’m continuing my healing journey, focusing on myself, and focused on becoming a better, healthier person.

My question is, why would he be exhibiting that behavior, and then decide to block me out of nowhere when I’ve literally made zero attempts to reach out to him?

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u/HistorianShoddy651 — 10 hours ago
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brake up?,I'm 22M dating my gf 21F for 1 year now, but i just realized that her doesn't want to get married in the future. I'm in dilemma right now, i think that i should stop this now.

First i want to sorry for my broken English, not gonna lie but english is my 4th language.

Im 22M currently working and studying abroad in Germany, I met her through a friend of mine who is also doing studying abroad in Germany, i fell in love with her at first sight, i mean she funny, beautiful, and very smart.

Sometimes i wonder, do I deserve to be dating her?
But honestly I'm kinda guy who date for married, and yeah I know thats the opposite what her thinking.

What makes me in a dilemma is, she once told me that she once wanted to attempt s**cide because she was bull*ed by her roommate, after knowing that I felt guilty if | left her, I was also worried about her if I wasn't there.

But if | continue this relationship I'm not sure if I can last any longer, lalso know that this is not good for my mental health, 1 mean I feel in love again every time I see her, and it makes it harder for me to leave her.

I used to think that I could change her way of thinking, but l couldn't even overcome my bad habits.

I know it's selfish, but I don't know what I should do.

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u/ThrowRA_idkwtfshldid — 8 hours ago
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I want to break up but I also don’t and don’t know if I can bring myself to do it.

Me M18 and my gf F19 have been together 9 months.
Over the last few weeks/months I have felt the need to break up on and off. I get easily agitated by her and I don’t know why. I’ve said this to her and she asked if there’s things she can change or we can could change about the relationship but I don’t see a way to settle my thoughts on the issue. She said she’s not going to beg me to stay as she has already done that after I tried to break up before on a different issue ( lying about her past bfs). She is a very loving gf and she says she’s wants to marry me and have a family with me but I feel weird when she talks about that stuff. The relationship is a good one but she just annoys me when she does certain things, certain things I used to find amusing now just annoys me and I don’t want to bottle it up and explode on her and I also can’t bring myself to break up with her because I do love her and her family but there’s something wrong that I can’t pin point and it’s driving me crazy
I don’t want to lead her on or try have this conversation again in the future and I just push her away trying to fix it or potentially make the mistake of breaking up and really regretting it.
How can I manage this?

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u/Mcgart07 — 9 hours ago
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Idk what to do

I need help with everything right now. We’re going to call me Jack and call her Jill. Jill pursued me 7 years ago. I just graduated high school and told her not to get her hopes up because I didn’t want a girlfriend. Jill was my first girlfriend. We’ve both done some things in our relationship that would make one another lose trust and be hurt. My wrong doings were worse and I acknowledge that and take accountability. I’ve cheated physically, virtually, every way possible. She is aware of only a fraction of the multiple occurrences.

We are both young (early 20s). Throughout our relationship, there has been plenty of time where I did actually want it. I did and do still love her, but I just wanted to experience the fast life and live on the edge. This is no excuse for my actions, I’m just reflecting. I purposed early this year in February and she said yes.

We haven’t been as close as we were when our relationship had begun. I’m sure that’s somewhat normal, honeymoon phase? She has always wanted me more in our relationship, it has been so unfair the entire time.

Jill unengaged me 3-4 weeks ago now. I’ve been sad the entire time. I’ve never cried more tears in my life. Obviously I am the reason for this entire thing. If I only had made better choices and been a better partner then I’m sure this wouldn’t have happened. Last week I was having a tough time and was begging her to hangout with me one night. She has originally told me yes but that changed. She went to go help her friend because her car had broken down. Then she was dropping her friend off and ended up being with her friend, but having sex with someone that was there. I have been caught and did wrong as well so I feel like I can’t hold that against her. Especially since I wasn’t being intimate with her too often, due to my own insecurities and struggles.

I’m at a point now where I just don’t want to lose my best friend. She’s all I’ve know for the last 7 years. Idk how to talk to girls and I also don’t want that. I just wanted Jill forever and to be the mother our my future children.

We haven’t 6 animals together, our first apartment, and our first real car. This has been a really hard time for me and I’ve been coping with alcohol and I haven’t ate in days. Currently on a 84 hour fast, with no intentions or thoughts to eat again soon. I’m good at expressing my feelings or talking about them, another reason why she unengaged me. I keep my feelings inside all the time.

I’m not really sure the point of this post. I think I just needed to rant. Everyone guy I talk to about this just tells me get hammered and bang girls, but that’s not what I want. I’m not sure how to move on and move forward. I had so many hobbies and now mostly everything is sold and gone. I ripped up all our physical memories, cards, photos, pictures, paintings. I don’t want to lose her but if she does accept me back and is willing to try and work on us, how can I trust her?

Thank you for listening.

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u/Kurkiooo — 12 hours ago

how do i breakup with her?

this is my first relationship and boy does it have its troubles. idk how to communicate and i damage myself the longer i stay with her how do i end things? i want to know about the appropriate conversation and steps to take afterwards please (18m and 15f more about it on my account)

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u/DesperateBus2403 — 10 hours ago

Nightmares

Hello, it's been awhile since my breakup now. He abandoned me after my dog died in a discard fashion.

Im completely over him, but I have nightmares every single night. Like to the point I'm having a panic attack in my dream and wake up crying and not being able to breathe in real life.

I know I am traumatized from him, but how do I make these stop? Some of them are so bad I can't get out of bed and just stay curled up in a ball all day crying. I have to move on in life and I am trying, but these nightmares are seriously messing up my mental health.

I know it has nothing to actually do with him because my life is a lot better and easier without him. I just don't know how to make them stop.

Can anyone help me? I really need to figure out how to make these stop. I can't express enough how I literally wake up in a panic attack because I was having one in the dream. I feel like I'm getting to the point of needing serious help

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u/macymay14 — 11 hours ago
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Male perspective needed

I dated a guy for 4 months. We had a very strong connection, same interests, similar values, etc. We got on well pretty fast. Even though we never were boyfriend and girlfriend “formally”, we basically played or acted like we were.
After those 4 months he slowly started teasing that he couldn’t keep on going with the relationship because of his personal life. In his words, he didn’t want to drag me to his problems and wanted to keep me “safe”. It is true that he has a complex life, but it would never occur to me that he would let go of us just because of that. However, i know that he is scared of getting hurt again because of his past relationship and I believe that is a huge factor of why he didn’t want to commit. In spite of that, he’s still in contact with his ex.
When he broke up with me he made clear that he really cared about me and valued me as a person, and because of that he wanted to remain friends. What does that even mean? Would he eventually want to get back together?
In this point in time we are friends who eventually hang out, but it feels as if nothing changed. Sometimes we simply hang out and others we end up hooking up.
have you guys ever been in this situation? what do you think made him make that decision?

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u/Due-Intention-8743 — 21 hours ago
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She moved on normally. I’m still trying to understand what happened

I’m a 26M currently living in Germany, and earlier this year I matched with a girl on Hinge after basically spending years not seriously dating anyone. Before this, I had a very long phase of just focusing on studies, life, and myself, so this connection felt very different and very meaningful to me.

We talked for around 4 months. We never officially became a couple, but emotionally it became quite intense, at least from my side. We used to talk almost daily, had long phone and video calls, shared personal things, talked about life, future plans, insecurities, family stuff, and slowly I started feeling emotionally attached to her. What made it confusing is that it never felt one-sided in the beginning. She was vulnerable with me too, showed care, interest, affection.

At the same time, I later realized she probably still had unresolved feelings or some emotional connection with her ex. Things slowly became hot and cold, and then on my birthday she suddenly ended things, blocked me, and later I noticed she had reconnected with her ex again(the same guy, who used to ignore and make complications in their relationship). That part honestly hit me very hard.

What I still struggle to understand is why this affected me so deeply. Logically, I know we weren’t officially together, and it was “only” four months. But emotionally, it genuinely felt like I lost someone important. I went through all the classic anxious attachment stuff afterwards checking profiles, overthinking, wondering what was real and what wasn’t, replaying conversations in my head, feeling unable to move on even though part of me knew the connection probably wasn’t healthy or stable in the long run.

The strange thing is that lately I’ve started feeling slightly better. I’m focusing more on my German classes, thesis, work, future plans, and trying to rebuild myself again. Sometimes when I accidentally see her profile or photo now, she almost feels… normal? Like my brain is slowly removing the pedestal I had placed her on. But then there are still moments where random memories or emotions hit me out of nowhere and I wonder why my mind is still attached to something that ended so abruptly.

I’m not posting this to blame her or call her toxic. I genuinely think she cared about me in her own way. I just think maybe we were emotionally in very different places, and I got attached much more deeply than she did.

I guess I just wanted to ask if anyone else has gone through something similar, especially with a short but emotionally intense connection that somehow affected you way more than you expected.

How long did it take you to mentally detach from it? And how did you stop over-romanticizing someone once the emotional high faded away?

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My ex fiancé left me 3 weeks before the wedding

i was engaged to my ex and we were together for two years. Before me, there was another girl in his life .. the only girl he had ever dated in middle school.. and from what I knew, he had been attached to or after her for around eight years after she left him.. During our relationship, there were a few times when I caught him stalking or checking up on her, but every time he begged for forgiveness, reassured me that it meant nothing, and insisted that she was not important to him. What made me believe him even more was that throughout our relationship, he would speak negatively about her, slut shame her, and call her really harsh names in front of me, so I genuinely never thought he still cared about her in any way.
Then after two years together and getting engaged, the moment he left me, he went back to her. That is what keeps eating at me because I can’t stop wondering what that actually means. Did he truly love me and our relationship, because there were a lot of things that he did that would make anyone think that way.. or was I unknowingly just a placeholder until things with her happened again? Does he genuinely love and respect her?, or was there something else behind going back to someone he seemed to hold onto for so many years?.. i can’t get it off my head because even that girl knew how much he slut shamed her with everyone and she is still with him despite all this.. mind you she used to be my friend but after a few times she dissed mine and his relationship, and made fun of me in-front of others, i ended it with her.. now they both are going in vacations and posting each other about how happy they are! i am over him but not over this situation.. someone please give me their perspective

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u/PrideAshamed6153 — 1 day ago
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i want to leave boyfriend but i don’t know how

i am a 19yr old female wanting to leave my 21 yr old boyfriend. we have been together since we were 15 & 17. we just got a new house that we’re renting, and we both make 2k a month full time. he has hurt me so many times, and he thinks apologizing for it just gets rid of all the hurt. but i’m so tired of words without change, and i can’t do it anymore. i pay rent and he pays utilities and groceries which totals up to $700, while i pay 1,145. i pay the rent early every month. he is exactly the same person he was 5 years ago. which is a problem because we are adults now. i want someone who is more mature and fits my lifestyle now, and he just isn’t it. it is a 3B 2BA house. he wouldn’t agree to just being roommates, he has anger issues and is very impulsive when he gets angry. if i broke up with him, he would move back home 100%. so i need to find a way to make this work without him. or atleast find a way to talk to him about this without him exploding. he’s my bestfriend. but that’s all he really feels like. just a friend i share a bed with. we aren’t intimate. my body and mind is just checked out of this relationship. he’s a good guy but a terrible partner. and i just want time to figure out who i am as a person since i’ve been with him since i was a teen. i’m not the same person i used to be, but he keeps trying to shove me in a box and assume that i am. that’s why we can’t move forward. please over some suggestions.

it’s a one year lease, and my parents aren’t an option because they both don’t have space or are homeless.

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u/sorryinadvancee — 1 day ago
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Can’t make sense of my break up. Should I have a final conversation with him?

I’m struggling to make sense of a breakup that honestly blindsided me emotionally, and whether having one final conversation with my ex would actually help me get closure.

My boyfriend [36M] and I [29F] were together for about a year, and the relationship genuinely felt loving, supportive, and emotionally meaningful to me. Neither of us were extremely emotionally expressive people, but I felt like we were steadily growing together over time. He showed up for me during major moments in my life, including during an abortion and when my dad was in the ER. He wasn’t emotionally cold or absent during the relationship.

I also intentionally tried to show up as the healthiest version of myself in this relationship. I communicated openly, avoided games, gave him patience and emotional safety, and genuinely loved him very deeply.

That’s why the breakup has been so confusing.

After a date that honestly went really well, he suddenly told me on our walk home:

“I don’t think we should be together.”

When I asked why, the reasoning kept shifting throughout the conversation. First he said:

“I don’t think I’m a good boyfriend.”

Then it became:
“I don’t see myself marrying you.”

Then:
“You’re not enough for me in every way.”

Then eventually:
“Our relationship is too easy” and that I “don’t have enough masochistic tendencies” to keep him interested.

The problem is that none of those explanations fully lined up with the relationship I thought we were having, and when I challenged some of the statements, he agreed they weren’t accurate.

What’s making this even harder is that we never fully finished the breakup conversation. He had to leave, we kissed goodbye, agreed we’d talk more later, and then I didn’t hear from him for two weeks.

I finally reached out because I felt like I deserved more than an unfinished conversation after a year together. He responded immediately saying:
“Last thing I want is us on bad terms. What does your weekend look like?”

Now I genuinely don’t know whether another conversation would help me heal or just reopen the wound.

I’m not struggling to understand that relationships can end. I’m struggling to reconcile how a relationship that felt calm, loving, safe, and progressively deeper to me suddenly turned into him feeling fundamentally unfulfilled seemingly overnight.

Has anyone experienced something similar where the breakup explanation itself felt emotionally inconsistent or confusing? Did another conversation help, or did you eventually realize the other person simply didn’t fully understand their own feelings?

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u/Ok_Ninja5557 — 22 hours ago
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Circumstancial breakup

Have you ever broken up because the guy in the relationship one day said he has been thinking a lot about moving the relationship to marriage, but incapable due to career and financial instability. So while he still loves you, he needs to let you go. How does that feel and how do you recover from that since you both still love each other very much. As a guy, do you step up for the woman you love? And the woman, do you go back to him and wait till he is ready?

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u/Klutzy_Hearing3795 — 1 day ago
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FA blocked me everywhere but keeps posting reviews on letterboxd targeted towards me

Me (M23) and my FA (F22) broke up 3 times over 7 months, our recent or in her words “final” breakup was really messy. I went to get my stuff from her house but she never came out to talk to me in person and silently blocked me everywhere. I only left when i heard her mom inside yelling at her to come out and end things on my face.

A few days later, she unblocked me and apologized for her behaviour. After this I showed up at her volunteering place to have a last in person goodbye but she felt uncomfortable by that. She blocked me again after that.

I am a really big movie buff and over the course of our relationship i made her install letterboxd. She’s someone who doesn’t watch films but she knows letterboxd was a big quirk of my personality. Ever since we broke up in 3 days she has posted 2 reviews, one on the day we broke up and one on the day after i showed up unannounced.

One of the films was 500 days of summer and in both the reviews, shes talking about how relationships are nuanced and no one’s evil or wrong, people are just young and flawed and no one’s in the bad. I feel like shes trying to communicate with me in the smallest way possible cause she knows this is my hobby, watching and letterboxding and she never did this until we brokeup and now shes trying to process her feelings through film but then they’re also targeted towards me cause she knows i can read these.

Is there any chance she’ll unblock me in the future and try to reconnect? When i saw her she seemed very happy and ig relieved but that could be cause shes a FA. Meanwhile I haven’t smiled in days.

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My bf broke up with me and blocked me back

So I did know this guy he is 18 years old and me too on social media and we did talk for like two months and we literally talked deeply about a lot of things and he was there for me kinda but lately he distanced himself idk why so before two days i did find a girl he followed blocked me and did ask him about her and he told she is just a girl who studied with me on highschool and I asked why she blocked me than because I was the only girl he follows on tiktok and he reposted about me he told me idk than I asked him do u talk to her in insta he said no and when I asked him u sure ? , he completely turned to another person and told me don’t question my words and u really don’t trust me at all and than he did send his list of least interacted with on insta and she was from them and he told me he dosen’t want somebody who dosen’t trust him and as. A man that’s the last thing u can do to ,I told him u talk harsh and I was just confused and I told him am sorry about it than he told okay can we stop arguing than i told him I can’t stay with someone who doesn’t think what he think when he argue with someone who he cared about than and says stupid things to win argument and he said u really think my principals stupid so that’s why he really can’t stand me anymore and I told him give me space he said like a break he told I want it I didn’t love life as a bf fr and I got intuition that’s am not in the right place and I was planning to break up after ur exams than I cursed him because he wasted my time and he the one who did do much efforts in the beginning and told him stupid and sick and blocked him and I told him I can’t force u to be with me because I apologized and u are filipino my words and blocked him than he blocked me back , tell me if am wrong and don’t feed my delusion ,who is wrong in that situation ?

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u/Ok-Stand-8938 — 1 day ago
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The 5 Step Recovery Timeline: Mapping the Path Out of Narcissistic Abuse

Methodology: Insights from 2 Million Minutes of Conversation

This timeline was not built from a textbook. It is the result of a massive data-mapping project, analyzing over 2 million minutes of monthly peer-support conversations from survivors of narcissistic relationships.

When you analyze thousands of hours of raw, unfiltered human experiences, patterns emerge. We noticed that regardless of age, gender, or background, the journey from being "trapped" to being "free" follows five distinct psychological stations. We’ve distilled these patterns into a map to help you understand where you are, why you feel this way, and what to expect next.

Phase 1: The Cognitive Dissonance (The Psychological Fog)

This is the "investigative" phase, where your brain is working overtime to solve a puzzle that has no logic. You are trying to reconcile the person you fell in love with (the "soulmate") with the person who is currently hurting you.

  • The Internal Conflict: You find yourself saying, "He/She can be so cruel, but you didn't see how they treated me when we first met." At the same time, another question keeps looping underneath it all: “Is it me?” You wonder if you’re too sensitive, overreacting, or somehow causing the problem, even when something doesn’t feel right.
  • Real-Life Example: You spend hours scrolling through old texts or photos, trying to find "proof" that the person you loved still exists. When they explode at you over a minor detail-like the way you parked the car-you find yourself apologizing just to keep the peace, even though you did nothing wrong.
  • The Data Insight: In this stage, survivors use the word "But" more than any other. It is a constant tug-of-war between reality and hope.

Phase 2: The Shattering (Grieving the Fantasy)

The "Aha!" moment in a narcissistic relationship isn't usually a happy one. It’s the brutal realization that the person is not going to change because they don't think they have a problem.

  • The Internal Conflict: A deep, hollow sense of betrayal. It’s not just about the lies; it’s about the realization that the future you planned was a script they wrote to control you.
  • Real-Life Example: You finally stop arguing. When they start a fight, you just sit there in silence because you realize that explaining your feelings is like trying to describe color to someone who refuses to open their eyes. You cry for the "wasted years”, but this grief is actually the beginning of your freedom.
  • The Data Insight: This is where the "Trauma Bond" is most visible. Like a physical addiction, your body craves the "highs" of their rare moments of kindness to numb the "lows" of the abuse.

Phase 3: The Detox (Strategic Withdrawal)

This is the most emotionally difficult and vulnerable phase. Whether you use "No Contact" or the "Grey Rock" method (becoming as uninteresting as a grey rock), you are actively starving the narcissist of their "supply" - your emotional reactions.

  • The Internal Conflict: You feel like an addict. You want to check their social media; you want to know if they are happy without you.
  • Just as you start to create distance, something pulls you back in—a message, a memory, a moment of doubt—and the cycle starts again*.*
  • Real-Life Example: They send you a "Hoovering" text - a random message like "I saw this and thought of you" or "I'm so sorry, I've changed”. In the past, you would have jumped at this. Now, you realize it’s just a hook. You feel the urge to reply, but you choose to put your phone in another room and breathe through the anxiety.
  • The Data Insight: Our analysis shows that this is the "Relapse Zone”. Most survivors try to leave multiple times before it sticks. Having a community to "hold your hand" during these texts is the #1 predictor of success.

Phase 4: Identity Reclamation (The Quiet Rebuilding)

Once the "noise" of the narcissist is gone, you are left with a terrifying silence. You realize you don't know what you like, what your hobbies are, or even what your favorite food is, because you spent so long catering to them.

  • The Internal Conflict: "Who am I when I'm not being a caretaker or a target?"
  • Real-Life Example: You go to a movie or a restaurant alone. You realize you don't have to ask for permission. You start reconnecting with that one friend they made you stop talking to three years ago. It feels awkward at first, but slowly, the "fog" clears, and your personality starts to resurface.
  • The Data Insight: This is the phase where survivors stop talking about "Them" and start talking about "Me." The vocabulary shifts from "What did he do?" to "How do I feel?"

Phase 5: Integration (Post-Traumatic Growth)

You don't "get over" narcissistic abuse; you integrate it. The experience stops being a gaping wound and becomes a scar - a mark of where you've been and what you've survived.

  • The Internal Conflict: You no longer feel the need for a "final showdown" or an apology. You realize that your healing is the only closure you need.
  • Real-Life Example: You meet someone new (or a new colleague/friend) and they show a "Red Flag" - maybe a small lie or a boundary push. Instead of making excuses for them, you calmly walk away. You aren't "bitter"; you are simply protected.
  • The Data Insight: This is the most beautiful part of our data. Survivors in Phase 5 often become the "guides" for those in Phase 1. They use their pain as a lighthouse for others still lost in the fog.

Where are you on this timeline?

There is no "right" speed. Some people stay in Phase 1 for years; others fly through to Phase 3 and then loop back to Phase 2. The goal isn't to be fast; it's to be honest with yourself.

Last, It’s important to remember that timelines can be tricky and not necessarily this absolute. Also, there are scenarios where there is ongoing contact because of kids etc so everything should be taken on consideration and proportion..

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u/IradEichler — 1 day ago
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My partner wants to break up but I’m scared they’ll kill themselves if we do

Throwaway. We’ve been together for 4 years now and have had our fair share of ups and downs. Recently there’s been infidelity on both sides which lead to a short breakup. The fights leading up to the breakup were brutal and they threatened to kill themselves multiple times. Since then we’ve decided to stay together but things aren’t the same at all. I don’t expect them to be the same right away but I really thought we were going to put in the effort and it really feels like I’m the only one wanting things to work. Whenever I ask about it they say they don’t see themselves living much longer. It’s something they’ve said before throughout our relationship but we never dug too much into it. They suffer from severe depression, OCD, and anxiety. During our breakup I had accepted that it was for the best and that we had both damaged each other enough so it was time to let go but I couldn’t shake the feeling of them wanting to take their life and have it be my fault. I couldn’t live with myself knowing I didn’t do everything I could for them. They often repeated that I would not be the reason and that they’ve felt like this for a while but I know I broke them, their trust, and their whole sense of reality. They’re very isolated and don’t really have anyone else outside of me which only makes their situation worse having no one else to talk to. They don’t want any treatment or medication but I’m still trying to advocate for it strongly. I’m trying to make the most out of every day with them even when they don’t want to. I know we’re still together and they’ve said they won’t be harming themselves but still make comments about not wanting to live or not thinking they’ll be here much longer. I don’t know what to do anymore. I just want the best for them no matter if we stay together or not but I’m scared that if we don’t, they’ll kill themselves and i’ll forever be the reason for it or that we’ll stay together out of fear and won’t ever be fully happy again.

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u/Sorry_Number6521 — 1 day ago
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Idk what to do with him

Okay, so I'm gonna explain. I was on a relationship with a boy. ALL WAS ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. He was very in love and me too asf. Nevermind, in march I started to worry a lot about him because he was drowning in self-destructive comportement. So, my reaction was kinda normal and I'll do all my possible to saw him (we were in a distance relationship). He broke up with me (I try to explain in briefly) because he wasn't fine at all and he felt totally lost.

So, problems arrive at that time. I've never suffered like that in a relationship, as in a friend way as in a loving way. He keeps me on his social network and he is "close friend" category, so I can see those private stories. He hasn't talked to me for 2 months. I only have echoes from our common friends, that he doesn't want a relationship he only wants sex now, he loved me so much, he can't stop thinking about me, he hadn't forgotten me, etc etc... I'm the best thing that happened in his life etc etc...

But he still hangs out with a man that insulted me and emphasized him to break up with me; he had "solely talked to two "slut" as he said because he was bored. Now he talked to a girl that is her friend with same problems than him. But he said to my best friend a few days ago that he was waiting for me to come in his city (for my studies).

What do you think ? I try to get rid of my attachment for him, but I can't I love him so much. Nonetheless, if he still disrespect me like that, I can't be in a relationship with him again, not in that way, I don't want to lose myself again and I try to be so strong and to love myselft but that's so difficult, I can't handle that anymore, I don't know what to do.. he's not clear with me for now, he only talks to me at others friends but not in front of me, I'm so sick, he makes me sick but I still love him so much.

Which advices can you gimme ?

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u/kimmychou — 1 day ago
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Hi, My(M21) gf left me for another guy 4 months ago. just needing general support and advice .

Hey there the title says it all but about four months ago my ex cheated, ghosted me, and left me for another man. She ignored my messages up until last week where she called me preachy and told me how little she cares about me and how little she thinks of me.

Which when I mentioned what she did and how she was acting she switched up and said she cared about me and she is still dealing with the breakup?mixed signals lol

She consistently lurks on my profile and watches my actions. I won’t lie I do the same, I see her and the other guy play games online and other things. I guess she chose him over me.

It’s hard, I view myself as so ugly some days that I won’t even leave the house or hang out with my friends, the situation was so complicated

She played with my head and everyone around me was lying to me and screwing with me, this whole situation has left me crazy.

I miss the person I was before I met her, I wish I was smarter.

We use to live together? It’s crazy how it’s became this. I really just hope she realizes one day what she’s done and she comes back and apologizes, but I know that’s never gonna happen.

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u/MaleficentKale4158 — 1 day ago