Emotional detachment after betrayal does not always arrive as a decision. Sometimes it arrives as a body doing what it can to keep a man functional. That is the version people miss. They talk about anger. They talk about grief. They talk about confrontation, decisions, ultimatums, boundaries. All of that comes later, or it doesn’t. […]
The first thing most people suggest, when they find out what you’re going through, is therapy. They mean well. Therapy has genuine value and I won’t argue otherwise. For some men, in some forms, with the right therapist, it is exactly what they need. I’m not here to talk anyone out of it. But here
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Everyone who has been through betrayal has been told, at some point, that they need closure. It’s one of the most universally dispensed pieces of advice in the healing landscape. Get closure. Find closure. You won’t be able to move on until you have closure. And it sounds reasonable, even compassionate, because it seems to
