This is engrained into your mindset, an angst which keeps you isolated, this rage, the turmoil that you feel long after you’ve separated from your partner. Since you feel this betrayal by someone that you’ve once loved, relied on their trust, now you feel afraid.
You’re frightened because of your uncertainty. As the years, then at times the decades roll by, you still remain reluctant to let go. You resist moving forward, not because you don’t want to detach yourself from that person, but because you choose to suffer.
But …