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How abandonment distorts self-perception

My husband left me for someone younger after thirty years of marriage and I look in the mirror and do not recognize this old woman staring back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Rejection can shatter not just the relationship but the entire sense of self that existed within it.

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