It’s the middle of the night again. You’re staring at the ceiling, replaying the last few months, or the last few years, trying to find the exact moment it all went wrong.
You are desperately searching for the why.
Why did he leave? Why didn’t he try harder? How could he walk away from decades of marriage and from the family you created together, without a backward glance?
You believe that if you could just sit down with him, if he would just give you a real, honest explanation, you could finally get some closure. You think that understanding his reasons will somehow make the pain stop.
I know this feeling dearly. I spent months trapped in that same loop.
His explanation is never going to heal your pain.
The illusion of the “why”…
When we are blindsided by divorce, our brains go into overdrive trying to make sense of the senseless. We are rational women. We believe in cause and effect. So, we assume there must be a logical explanation for why our husbands suddenly turned into strangers.
Here is the problem: You are looking for a rational explanation for an irrational act.
Even if he did sit down and give you his reasons, even if he handed you a detailed, bulleted list of why he chose to blow up your life, it wouldn’t bring you peace.
Because his reasons will never be good enough.
There is no explanation he could possibly offer that would make you say, “Oh, okay. That makes perfect sense. I feel much better now.” His words won’t undo the betrayal. They won’t rebuild your family or erase the trauma of being abandoned.
What you are really looking for…
When you are waiting for closure from him, you aren’t looking for information.
You are looking for validation. You are hoping his explanation will somehow prove that you didn’t deserve this. You are hoping he will take the blame so you can finally stop secretly wondering if you were the problem.
Or, even deeper down, you are hoping that if you could understand his reasons, you could fix them. You think the “why” is the key to putting the pieces back together.
His reasons are about him. They are about his own internal struggles, his own midlife crisis, his own inability to honor his commitments. They have absolutely nothing to do with your worth.
The trap of waiting for closure…
Every day that you wait for his explanation, you are handing him the keys to your healing.
By believing you need his explanation to move on, you are keeping yourself tethered to him. You are putting your recovery on hold, waiting for a man who has already proven he cannot be trusted with your heart to suddenly show up and do the right thing.
Waiting for closure from him keeps you stuck in the victim role. It keeps you small, waiting for permission to heal.
Closure is an inside job…
I didn’t start healing until I realized that closure wasn’t something my ex-husband could give me. Closure was something I had to create for myself.
I had to do the deep, soul-searching work of rewiring my beliefs. I had to identify the belief that said, “I need him to make sense of this so that I can be okay.”
Through specific healing methods, I learned how to release the trauma of betrayal, and I also learned how to detach my self-worth from his choices.
I had to accept that I might never know the truth of why he did what he did, and I had to decide that I was going to have a fulfilling life anyway.
You hold the power…
You do not need his words to heal. You have everything inside you to move forward. You get to build a life on your own terms, without waiting for his permission.
You have the authority to declare that this chapter is closed. You get to decide what happens next.
If you are exhausted from the middle-of-the-night thought loops, and if you are tired of waiting for an explanation that is never going to come, you can take your power back right now.
The moment you stop waiting for him to give you closure is the moment your real healing begins.
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