Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
Interpretation
Abandonment causes deep emotional pain and suffering, similar to a physical injury.
In this quote, Tayari Jones powerfully captures the emotional impact of abandonment by comparing it to physical pain. Instead of a quick, sharp pain that fades, abandonment feels like a profound injury that is both physical and emotional, leaving lasting bruises and a struggle to breathe. This metaphor illustrates how deeply feelings of abandonment can affect one's life and psyche, emphasizing that the pain is often more than just a momentary wound; it can linger and reshape one's existence.
In practice
In a therapy session discussing the long-term effects of abandonment on relationships.
And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start a life just as it can start a day. This was the meeting of two people who were destined to love from before they were born, from before they made choices that would complicate their lives. This love just rolled toward my mother as though she were standing at the bottom of a steep hill. Mother had no hand in this, only heart.
There's something very lazy about the way you have loved him blindly for so long without ever criticizing him. You've never even accepted that the man is ugly,' Kainene said. There was a small smile on her face and then she was laughing, and Olanna could not help but laugh too, because it was not what she had wanted to hear and because hearing it had made her feel better.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
Everybody used to talk about Chechnya as a place, in the Russian imperial and Soviet periods, that was essentially governed by extended family and regional networks that substituted for older clan structures. But those networks have been destroyed.
We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. I think that is very sad.
I feel that women - without wishing to foster any strict separatist notions, homo or hetero - indeed have a need for their own publications and organizations. Our problems, our experiences as women are profoundly unique as compared to the other half of the human race.
If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.
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