Fear of abandonment, rejection, and indifference strike something primal in the healthiest of men and women especially if they (abandonment, rejection, indifference) travel together and act as a destructive gang of sorts.
“She closed the door on me after loving me,” and he talks incessantly about it happening without explanation.
“One day we were really close, and the next day, nothing. It doesn’t seem to mean anything to her.”
“Different choices,” was all she said, in a text.
I sit with a man unaccustomed to sharing his heart.
I know when I am hearing a broken one.
He’s finding it very hard to understand how this woman can so easily be willing to be out of touch when they’d invested so much time and energy being in touch. It’s the small details of life together, life shared, that were so important to them both and are still important to him that she seems to have forgotten they ever enjoyed.
He is mystified she can operate her life as if he no longer matters, no longer exists.
He’s feeling the loneliness he feared, beginning to accept he cannot sway, persuade or urge her to return to what once was.
“I’ve moved on,” she said to a friend.
He will emerge from this.
A little kindness would make it all so much easier.
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