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When Abandonment Makes You Hate Your Body

My partner left me for someone younger and I look in the mirror and see every wrinkle as evidence that I'm unworthy of love.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Romantic rejection can transform physical aging from natural process into proof of inadequacy.

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