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Why isolation feels safer than intimacy

I have been single for six years and tell myself I prefer it this way but I cry every night and cannot understand why I feel so empty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche chose disconnection as protection, but the soul withers without the nourishment of genuine relationship.

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