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How long marriages can erase your individual identity without you noticing

Before my divorce I was half of a couple for twelve years and now I do not remember how to be just me or what I even like when no one else is watching.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Partnership that begins as completion gradually becomes substitution, leaving you hollowed out when the other half departs.

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