The Strange Silence of Not Crying After a Breakup
Sometimes heartbreak does not arrive as tears. It arrives as numbness, exhaustion and the strange silence of knowing something is over without being able to feel it yet.
Sometimes heartbreak does not arrive as tears. It arrives as numbness, exhaustion and the strange silence of knowing something is over without being able to feel it yet.
Absence does not always arrive all at once. Sometimes the person leaves before the bond does, and the work is learning how to stop living around someone who is no longer there.
One of the quietest forms of suffering is believing that your existence costs other people more than it gives them. A reflection on shame, grief, vulnerability, and the stories we create about being a burden.