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When You Can't Stop Writing Messages You'll Never Send

I keep writing long texts to my ex explaining how I feel and then deleting them before sending and this has been going on for two months.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The compulsion to communicate with someone who can no longer receive our words reflects an inability to accept the finality of loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.