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0:00You know what nobody tells you about
0:01divorce? Your ex-wife is about to walk
0:03straight into a psychological minefield
0:05that she spent years convincing herself
0:07doesn't exist. And I'm not talking about
0:09some karma fantasy where she suddenly
0:11realizes what she lost and comes crying
0:13back. No, this is something much deeper,
0:17much more brutal. It's about what
0:19happens when someone trades certainty
0:21for illusion and watches that illusion
0:23crumble piece by piece. Let me paint you
0:26a picture right now as you're watching
0:29this. There are millions of men sitting
0:30in their empty apartments, scrolling
0:32through their ex's Instagram, watching
0:35her post quotes about new beginnings and
0:37living her best life. And these men are
0:40torturing themselves, thinking she's out
0:41there thriving while they're drowning.
0:44But here's what's actually happening
0:45behind those filtered photos and
0:47motivational captions. She's about to
0:49collide with a reality so harsh that her
0:51brain will literally rewire itself just
0:53to cope with the cognitive dissonance.
0:55See, when a woman leaves a marriage,
0:57especially one that lasted years, she's
1:00not just leaving you. She's leaving an
1:02entire psychological ecosystem that she
1:05doesn't even realize exists. Think about
1:08this for a second. For however long you
1:10were together, you were her reference
1:12point for everything. Every decision,
1:14every emotion, every plan for the future
1:17had you somewhere in the equation. Even
1:20when she was complaining about you to
1:22her friends, you were still the center
1:23of her psychological universe. And now
1:26now she's floating in space without
1:28gravity trying to convince herself that
1:30weightlessness is freedom. But let's get
1:33specific about what actually unfolds
1:35because the pattern is so predictable
1:37it's almost mathematical. The first
1:39phase is the honeymoon with herself.
1:41This lasts anywhere from 2 weeks to 3
1:44months. She's high on her own decision.
1:46Every morning she wakes up and mentally
1:48congratulates herself for being so
1:50brave, so strong, so independent. She
1:53redecorates the house, starts that yoga
1:55class she always talked about, maybe
1:57downloads a dating app just to see
1:59what's out there. Her friends are
2:01feeding her validation like it's
2:02cocaine. You look amazing. You're
2:05glowing. You deserve so much better. And
2:08she believes it. God, does she believe
2:10it. During this phase, she's not
2:12actually living in reality. She's living
2:14in a story she's telling herself about
2:16reality. The story where she's the
2:18heroine who escaped from mediocrity,
2:21where endless possibilities are waiting
2:23just around the corner. Her phone is
2:26buzzing with matches and messages. Men
2:28are giving her attention she hasn't felt
2:30in years. She interprets this as
2:32evidence that she made the right choice.
2:35What she doesn't realize is that she's
2:36mistaking quantity for quality,
2:38attention for intention, and novelty for
2:41value. Then comes phase two, and this is
2:43where things get interesting. The
2:45awakening, though, it's more like a slow
2:47motion car crash. It starts with small
2:50things. She goes on her first real date
2:52since the divorce. The guy seems perfect
2:54on paper. Good-looking, successful, says
2:57all the right things. They have dinner,
2:59maybe drinks. Everything seems to be
3:01going well. Then, at the end of the
3:03night, he makes his move. And suddenly,
3:05she realizes something that hits her
3:06like a bucket of ice water. This man
3:08doesn't actually care about her. Not
3:11really. He doesn't know that she's
3:12scared of thunderstorms or that she
3:14can't sleep without checking the door is
3:16locked three times or that she cries
3:18during that one commercial with the
3:20dogs. To him, she's just Friday night.
3:23And that's when the first crack appears
3:24in her narrative. But she pushes through
3:26because admitting doubt now would mean
3:28admitting she might have made a mistake.
3:30And that's psychologically unbearable.
3:32So she doubles down. More dates, more
3:35apps, more nights out with the girls.
3:38Except now something's different. The
3:40attention doesn't feel quite as
3:42intoxicating. The compliments feel
3:44hollow. She starts noticing things. How
3:46these men talk about their ex-wives, how
3:49they interact with waiters, how quickly
3:51they try to escalate things physically.
3:53And slowly, without even realizing it,
3:55she starts comparing them to you. Not
3:58consciously, mind you. Consciously,
4:00she's still maintaining the story that
4:01you were the problem. But
4:02subconsciously, her brain is doing what
4:05brains do. It's pattern matching. It's
4:07comparing and contrasting. That guy who
4:09seems so charming. He talks over her
4:12constantly. The one with the great job.
4:14He's emotionally unavailable. The fun,
4:17spontaneous one. He's actually just
4:19irresponsible and drinks too much. And
4:21with each comparison, you start looking
4:22better in hindsight. Not because you
4:25were perfect, but because you were
4:26known, you were safe. You were home.
4:29This is when phase 3 kicks in. The
4:31panic. It's usually around the 6 to 8
4:34month mark. The novelty has completely
4:36worn off. Her friends are tired of
4:38hearing about her dating adventures. Her
4:40kids, if you have them, are acting out
4:42because their world has been shattered.
4:44And she's been too busy finding herself
4:46to notice. She's exhausted from keeping
4:49up the performance of being happy
4:51because that's what it is now, a
4:53performance.
4:54Every I'm living my best life post takes
4:56more effort. Every smile in public feels
4:59heavier. She's an actress who's
5:01forgotten why she took the role. The
5:03panic manifests in different ways. Some
5:05women go into overdrive, becoming almost
5:07manic in their pursuit of validation.
5:10More dates, more activities, more
5:12anything to avoid sitting still with
5:14their thoughts. Others retreat, spending
5:16entire weekends in bed, scrolling
5:18through old photos, trying to figure out
5:20where everything went wrong. But they
5:22all share one thing in common. They
5:24start rewriting history. The marriage
5:26that was so terrible. Maybe it wasn't
5:29that bad. You, the person she couldn't
5:31stand to be around. Maybe she was too
5:34harsh. the future she was so sure about.
5:37Maybe she miscalculated. And here's
5:39where it gets really psychological. She
5:41can't just admit she made a mistake that
5:44would destroy her entire sense of self.
5:46She spent months, maybe years, building
5:49an identity around being the woman who
5:51was brave enough to leave. Her entire
5:54social narrative is constructed on this
5:56foundation. So instead, she does
5:58something fascinating. She creates a new
6:00story. one where maybe you've changed,
6:03maybe you've grown, maybe if things were
6:05different now, it could work. This
6:07allows her to entertain the idea of
6:09reconciliation without admitting she was
6:11wrong. Meanwhile, let's talk about
6:13what's happening in the dating world
6:14she's navigating. Because this is where
6:17reality really bites. The dating pool
6:19for a divorced woman, especially one
6:21with kids, is not what romantic comedies
6:24would have you believe. The men who are
6:26interested fall into a few predictable
6:28categories. There are the players who
6:30see her as an easy target, someone
6:32vulnerable and eager to feel desired.
6:34There are the married men looking for
6:35affairs who conveniently forget to
6:37mention their wives until several dates
6:39in. There are the perpetually single
6:42guys who are single for very good reason
6:44she's about to discover. And yes, there
6:46are some genuinely good men, but they're
6:48either taken or have options, lots of
6:50options. And she's competing with women
6:52who don't come with the baggage of
6:54divorce and children. She starts to
6:56realize something terrifying. The market
6:58value she thought she had doesn't exist.
7:00All those matches on dating apps, their
7:02miragees, they match with everyone.
7:05Those compliments about how beautiful
7:07she is. They're copying and pasting them
7:09to dozens of women. That chemistry she
7:11felt. He feels it with anyone who's
7:13willing to sleep with him. The harsh
7:16economics of dating after divorce hit
7:18her like a professional boxer. She's not
7:20special. She's not unique. She's just
7:23another profile among thousands. Phase
7:25four is the reckoning. This usually
7:28happens around the 1-year mark, though
7:30it can take longer for women who are
7:31particularly stubborn or particularly
7:32good at selfdeception.
7:34The reckoning is when the psychological
7:36defense mechanisms finally fail. She
7:39can't maintain the story anymore. The
7:41loneliness is crushing. Not the kind of
7:43loneliness where you wish someone was
7:45around, but the existential kind where
7:47you realize you've blown up your entire
7:49life for a fantasy that doesn't exist.
7:51She'll be sitting in her apartment one
7:53night, maybe after another disappointing
7:55date or another weekend where the kids
7:57are with you, and it will hit her all at
7:59once. The magnitude of what she's done,
8:02the irreversibility of it, the fact that
8:05she traded a flawed but real
8:07relationship for a perfect but imaginary
8:09one, and the weight of this realization
8:11is so heavy that some women literally
8:13can't process it. Their brains shut down
8:16the emotional centers just to survive
8:18it. This is when the late night texts
8:21start. You know the ones, they usually
8:23come between 11:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.
8:25They start casual. Hey, how are you? Or
8:29I was just thinking about that time we
8:31But what she's really saying is, I'm
8:34drowning and you're the only life jacket
8:36I remember. Sometimes they're angry
8:38texts blaming you for things that
8:40happened years ago because anger is
8:42easier than regret. Sometimes they're
8:44sad texts, reminiscing about good times,
8:47testing to see if there's still a
8:48connection. But they all mean the same
8:50thing. The grass wasn't greener. It was
8:52artificial turf. But here's what's
8:54really happening in her brain during all
8:56of this. She's experiencing cognitive
8:58dissonance at a level that's actually
9:00changing her neural pathways. Every day,
9:03her brain has to reconcile two
9:04incompatible truths. I made the right
9:07decision leaving and I'm miserable and
9:09everything is worse now. The
9:10psychological stress of maintaining
9:12these contradictory beliefs is literally
9:15exhausting. It affects her sleep, her
9:17appetite, her ability to concentrate.
9:20Some women develop anxiety disorders.
9:22Others fall into depression. Many
9:24develop a kind of emotional numbness
9:26where they can't feel anything deeply
9:28anymore because feeling would mean
9:29confronting the truth. Let me tell you
9:32about the Sunday night syndrome. It's
9:34this phenomenon where divorced women
9:35have their worst moments on Sunday
9:37nights. Know why? Because Sunday night
9:39is when the performance ends. The
9:41weekend is over. The distractions are
9:43gone. The kids are asleep or at your
9:45place. Tomorrow is Monday and another
9:47week of pretending everything is fine.
9:49And in that quiet moment, usually
9:51between getting ready for bed and
9:52actually falling asleep, the truth
9:54creeps in. She's alone. Really alone.
9:57Not independent, not free, not
9:58empowered, just alone. And the universe
10:01has a cruel sense of humor about this
10:03because right around the time she's
10:04reaching peak regret, you're probably
10:06starting to heal. You've gone through
10:08your own phases, the shock, the anger,
10:11the sadness. But men typically process
10:13divorce differently. We internalize. We
10:16rebuild. We focus on action rather than
10:18emotion. So by the time she's realizing
10:21what she's lost, you've already started
10:23becoming someone new, someone better,
10:25someone who learned from the marriage
10:26and the divorce. Someone who,
10:29ironically, might have been the man she
10:30wanted you to be all along. This creates
10:32a psychological torture chamber for her
10:35because now she can see the version of
10:36you she always said she wanted, but it's
10:38too late. You achieved it without her
10:41because of losing her and the knowledge
10:43that she catalyzed your improvement but
10:45won't benefit from it. That's a special
10:47kind of hell that keeps her up at night.
10:49Let's talk about what happens with her
10:51social circle during all this. Because
10:53women's friendships, especially around
10:55divorce, are fascinating from a
10:57psychological perspective. Initially,
11:00her friends are her cheerleaders. They
11:02rallied around her, told her she
11:04deserved better, helped her create the
11:06narrative that leaving was brave and
11:08right. But as months pass, dynamics
11:11shift. Her married friends start to
11:13distance themselves. Not consciously,
11:15but instinctively. She's now a threat, a
11:19reminder that marriages end. A single
11:21woman who might attract their husband's
11:23attention. The invitations to couple's
11:25dinners stop coming. The group chats
11:27move on without her. her single friends,
11:30the ones she thought would be her new
11:31tribe. They're competition now. They're
11:34all fishing in the same limited pond,
11:36and friendship becomes secondary to
11:38survival. Plus, she's not really single
11:40like them. She has baggage, history,
11:43kids, maybe. She's in a different
11:45category, and everyone knows it, even if
11:47no one says it. So, her social world,
11:49which was supposed to expand after
11:51divorce, actually contracts. She finds
11:54herself with fewer real friends than
11:55ever before. The loneliness compounds.
11:58The support system she counted on
12:00reveals itself to be conditional and
12:02fair weather. And she realizes something
12:04terrifying. You weren't just her
12:07husband. You were her best friend, her
12:09emergency contact, her default plus one,
12:12her safe space. And she threw it all
12:14away for what? For the idea that
12:17something better was waiting. Here's a
12:19psychological truth that nobody talks
12:21about. Women who leave marriages,
12:23especially long ones, often develop
12:26phantom relationship syndrome. Just like
12:28amputees feel phantom limbs, divorced
12:31women feel phantom relationships. She'll
12:33catch herself turning to tell you
12:34something funny that happened, then
12:36remember you're not there. She'll hear
12:38your voice in her head commenting on
12:39things throughout the day. She'll wake
12:41up and for a split second forget you're
12:43gone, then have to relive the loss all
12:44over again. This isn't love necessarily.
12:47It's neurological. Her brain spent years
12:50wiring itself around your presence. And
12:52those neural pathways don't just
12:54disappear. The universe seems to
12:56conspire to remind her of what she's
12:58lost. Your song comes on the radio. She
13:00finds one of your old t-shirts in the
13:02laundry. The kids say something exactly
13:04the way you would. She goes to that
13:06restaurant you loved and realizes food
13:09doesn't taste the same without someone
13:10to share it with. These aren't just
13:12memories. They're psychological anchors
13:14that drag her back to the reality she's
13:16trying to escape. And then there's the
13:18mathematical problem of finding someone
13:20new. Let's be honest about the numbers.
13:22If she's 35 or older, divorced, possibly
13:25with kids, looking for a serious
13:27relationship with a quality man who's
13:29also single, emotionally available,
13:31financially stable, attracted to her,
13:34and willing to take on another man's
13:36family, the statistical probability is
13:38brutal. Add in her own standards and
13:41preferences, which haven't adjusted to
13:43her new market reality, and you're
13:44looking at odds that would make a
13:46lottery ticket seem like a good
13:47investment. But she can't admit this,
13:50not to others, and especially not to
13:52herself. So, she creates coping
13:54mechanisms. She lowers her standards
13:56while telling herself she's being more
13:58open-minded. She accepts treatment she
14:00never would have before while calling it
14:02going with the flow. She tolerates
14:04disrespect and frames it as not sweating
14:07the small stuff. Each compromise chips
14:10away at her self-esteem. But the
14:12alternative, admitting she made a
14:14catastrophic mistake, is psychologically
14:16unbearable. Some women enter the
14:18renovation phase. They suddenly become
14:20obsessed with self-improvement. But not
14:22the healthy kind, the desperate kind.
14:25New hair, new body, new style, new
14:28personality even. They're trying to
14:30become someone else. Someone who might
14:32be more successful in this new reality.
14:34But it's like rearranging deck chairs on
14:36the Titanic. The problem isn't how she
14:38looks or acts. The problem is that she
14:41fundamentally miscalculated what was
14:43available versus what she had. The
14:45really tragic ones are those who get
14:46into rebound relationships quickly and
14:49try to force them to be serious. They
14:51meet someone, anyone, who shows interest
14:53and immediately try to recreate what
14:55they had with you. They introduce them
14:57to the kids too quickly. They push for
14:59commitment before trust is established.
15:01They ignore red flags because being with
15:03someone problematic feels better than
15:05being alone. These relationships always
15:07implode, usually spectacularly, leaving
15:10her even more damaged than before. And
15:13through all of this, you're the ghost
15:15that haunts everything. Not because
15:17you're doing anything, but because
15:19you're the standard, whether she admits
15:21it or not. Every man gets compared to
15:24you. Not the you she divorced, but the
15:27idealized version of you that her regret
15:29has created. The you that exists in her
15:32memory is better than you ever were in
15:34reality. And no one can compete with a
15:36ghost that she's perfected in hindsight.
15:39Here's what happens next. And this is
15:41where this psychology gets really dark.
15:44Around the 2-year mark, sometimes
15:45sooner, sometimes later, she faces a
15:48choice. She can either admit the truth
15:50and try to make amends, possibly
15:52attempting reconciliation, or she can
15:54double down on the lie and reshape her
15:56entire personality around it. Most
15:59choose the second option. It's easier.
16:01They become bitter, cynical. They join
16:04online groups that reinforce their
16:05choices. They become the women who tell
16:07other unhappy wives to leave, not
16:09because it's right, but because misery
16:11loves company and they need others to
16:13validate their choice. The ones who
16:16choose honesty face a different
16:17challenge. How do you approach someone
16:19you've hurt that deeply? How do you
16:21admit you were wrong when you've built
16:23an entire identity around being right?
16:25How do you ask for forgiveness when
16:27you're not even sure you deserve it? The
16:29psychological weight of this is
16:31crushing. Many women report that the
16:33hardest thing they've ever done wasn't
16:35leaving. It was admitting they shouldn't
16:37have. But wait, there's another layer to
16:39this psychological unraveling that most
16:41people never talk about. It's what
16:43happens to her sense of identity at the
16:45cellular level. See, when you're married
16:48for years, your identity isn't just you
16:50anymore. It's you as part of us. Every
16:53decision she made from what to cook for
16:55dinner to where to vacation was filtered
16:57through the lens of being a wife. Her
16:59neural pathway is literally formed
17:01around this identity. And when she
17:04leaves, she's not just losing you, she's
17:06losing who she was with you. And that
17:08creates an identity crisis that
17:09psychology textbooks don't adequately
17:11cover. Think about the small things she
17:14never had to think about before. Which
17:16side of the bed to sleep on when the
17:18whole bed is empty, what to watch on
17:20Netflix when there's no one to
17:21compromise with. Where to eat when every
17:23restaurant reminds her she's eating
17:25alone. These seem trivial, but they're
17:27death by a thousand cuts to her psyche.
17:30Every tiny decision becomes a reminder
17:32that she's navigating life without a
17:34co-pilot, and she fired him. The
17:36financial reality is another
17:38psychological hammer that drops around
17:39month 9. Divorce is expensive. Being
17:42single is expensive. That dual income
17:45that made life comfortable, gone. Now
17:48she's trying to maintain the same
17:49lifestyle on half the resources. But
17:51it's not just about money. It's about
17:53what money represents. security,
17:55stability, the ability to dream about
17:58the future without checking the bank
17:59balance first. She traded financial
18:02partnership for financial independence.
18:04But independence without resources isn't
18:06freedom. It's just decorated poverty.
18:09And here's something nobody prepares her
18:11for. The physical touch deficit. I'm not
18:15talking about sex. I'm talking about the
18:17thousand small touches that happen in a
18:19marriage. The hand on the lower back
18:20while passing in the kitchen. The feet
18:22touching under the covers. The automatic
18:24hug when someone's had a bad day. Touch
18:27is a human need as real as hunger or
18:30thirst. And suddenly she might go days,
18:33weeks without meaningful human contact.
18:36Her body starts to rebel. Stress
18:38hormones spike. Sleep becomes elusive.
18:41Her immune system weakens. She's
18:43literally becoming sick from skin
18:45hunger. But she can't admit it because
18:46that would mean admitting she needs what
18:48she rejected. The dating apps become a
18:50special form of psychological warfare.
18:53She's reduced to a set of photos in a
18:55bio competing with women 10 years
18:56younger who don't have stretch marks or
18:58emotional baggage or bedtimes dictated
19:00by school schedules. The algorithms are
19:03brutal. They show her to everyone at
19:05first. That dopamine hit of matches and
19:07messages. Then, as the app learns she's
19:10selective or maybe too old or maybe too
19:12complicated, her profile gets buried.
19:16The matches slow to a trickle. The
19:18messages become lower quality. She
19:20realizes she's become invisible in a
19:22marketplace that only values youth and
19:24availability, neither of which she has
19:26anymore. Some women develop performance
19:29exhaustion. They've been performing
19:31happiness for so long that they forget
19:32what genuine emotion feels like. Their
19:35smiles become reflexive, not reflective.
19:38Their laughter sounds hollow even to
19:40them. They post about living their best
19:42life while crying in their cars after
19:45dropping the kids at school. The gap
19:47between their public persona and private
19:49reality becomes so wide that they feel
19:52like they're living a double life. And
19:54maintaining that double life is
19:56exhausting. It's like being an
19:58undercover agent in your own existence.
20:00The dating apps become a special form of
20:02psychological warfare. She's reduced to
20:04a set of photos in a bio competing with
20:06women 10 years younger who don't have
20:08stretch marks or emotional baggage or
20:10bedtimes dictated by school schedules.
20:12The algorithms are brutal. They show her
20:15to everyone at first, that dopamine hit
20:17of matches and messages. Then, as the
20:20app learns she's selective or maybe too
20:22old or maybe too complicated, her
20:25profile gets buried. The matches slow to
20:27a trickle. The messages become lower
20:30quality. She realizes she's become
20:32invisible in a marketplace that only
20:33values youth and availability, neither
20:36of which she has anymore. Some women
20:38develop performance exhaustion. They've
20:41been performing happiness for so long
20:42that they forget what genuine emotion
20:44feels like. Their smiles become
20:46reflexive, not reflective. Their
20:49laughter sounds hollow even to them.
20:51They post about living their best life
20:54while crying in their cars after
20:55dropping the kids at school. The gap
20:58between their public persona and private
21:00reality becomes so wide that they feel
21:03like they're living a double life. And
21:05maintaining that double life is
21:06exhausting. It's like being an
21:08undercover agent in your own existence.
21:11This creates the final psychological
21:12torture. Regret without redemption.
21:15Awareness without action. She knows what
21:18she lost. She knows it was her choice.
21:20And she knows it's irreversible. She has
21:23to live with this knowledge every single
21:25day. Every happy couple she sees is a
21:28reminder. Every romantic movie is salt
21:30in the wound. Every wedding anniversary
21:33that passes without celebration is a
21:35monument to her miscalculation.
21:37And then there's the moment, it always
21:40comes when she sees you happy. Maybe
21:43it's a photo on social media. Maybe it's
21:46running into you at the store. Maybe the
21:48kids mention how much fun they had with
21:50you and your new girlfriend. And in that
21:52moment, something breaks inside her that
21:55can never be fully repaired. Because
21:57your happiness is proof that the problem
21:59wasn't the marriage. It was her
22:01perception of the marriage. You're
22:03capable of happiness. You're capable of
22:05love. You're capable of being the man
22:07another woman wants, which means you
22:09were always capable. She just couldn't
22:11see it. Or worse, she saw it but wanted
22:13more. This is the final psychological
22:16blow. The realization that she didn't
22:18leave a bad relationship. She left a
22:20relationship she made bad in her own
22:22mind. And now she has to live with that
22:24knowledge forever. Watching from the
22:26sidelines as you build the life she
22:28convinced herself was impossible, just
22:30with someone else who appreciated what
22:32she couldn't.
22:34The crulest irony. Many of these women
22:38eventually realized that the problems in
22:40the marriage weren't entirely about you
22:42or even mostly about you. They were
22:44about her dissatisfaction with herself
22:46that she projected onto the
22:47relationship. The restlessness, the
22:50feeling that something was missing, the
22:52sense that life should be more exciting.
22:54Those were internal issues that leaving
22:56you didn't solve. In fact, leaving you
22:58just made them worse because now she has
22:59to face them alone without the stability
23:01and support you provided. So what
23:04actually happens to your wife after
23:05divorce? She gets exactly what she asked
23:08for. Freedom, independence, the chance
23:11to start over and she discovers that
23:13what she asked for and what she wanted
23:15were two completely different things.
23:17She wanted to feel alive again, but she
23:20feels dead inside. She wanted
23:22excitement, but she got chaos. She
23:25wanted to be desired, but she became
23:27disposable. She wanted better, but she
23:30got different. And different isn't
23:32always better. Sometimes different is
23:35just different. And sometimes, more
23:37often than anyone wants to admit,
23:39different is worse.
23:42The ultimate psychological revelation
23:44that hits these women, usually years
23:46later, is this. They didn't leave you
23:48because you weren't enough. They left
23:50because they thought they deserved more.
23:52But deserving and getting are two
23:54different things. The market doesn't
23:56care what you think you deserve. Reality
23:58doesn't adjust to your expectations. And
24:00by the time they figure this out, the
24:02chance to fix it has usually passed.
24:04That's the truth about what happens to
24:06your wife after divorce. Not the
24:08Instagram version, not the story she
24:10tells her friends, not even the story
24:12she tells herself, but the real raw
24:15psychological unraveling that happens
24:17when someone trades a flawed reality for
24:19a perfect fantasy and discovers that the
24:22fantasy was the biggest lie they ever
24:23told themselves.

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