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When Your Partner Asks for Divorce and You Feel Nothing

My wife told me she wants a divorce yesterday and I feel completely numb like I am watching someone else's life fall apart.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Emotional numbing in the face of devastating loss can be the psyche's attempt to protect itself from unbearable pain.

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