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After years of emotional criticism and isolation, I used therapy to name the pattern, reconnected with friends and planned the breakup. Blocking contact wasn't about punishing them; I needed the distance so I wouldn't get pulled back in. The hardest period came after leaving, when loneliness was mistaken for evidence that the relationship had been healthy.
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