Mental & Emotional Wellness Journal

attachment wounds

An image of a maze to signify the complex and painful ways people end and maintain unghappy relationships

The Painful Ways We Leave Unhappy Relationships

Sometimes leaving a relationship doesn’t look clean or healthy. When self-worth is low and fear runs deep, we might withdraw, provoke, or betray to create an exit we can’t ask for directly. And sometimes, someone’s fear of being left leads them to hold on through control and manipulation. This article explores both sides of painful relationship endings with compassion, offering insight into why we stay, who we become when we can’t leave well, and how therapy can help everyone involved

Sparks being sprayed to symbolise the emotions that we expereince when limerance hits us.

Exploring Limerence, When Someone Takes Over Your Thoughts

Have you ever felt a pull towards someone so strong that they became the background to everything, there while you work, there when you wake at three in the morning? Or perhaps it is your partner who has gone somewhere you cannot follow, their attention elsewhere, their phone held a little too close.