Nobody tells you that healing is full of contradictions. We talk about it like it's a direction, like you're either moving toward something or you're not. Like progress is a straight line you can measure, a before and after you can point to.

So naturally, you do what anyone in 2026 does: you open Google and type "how do you know if someone is losing interest" at 11:47 pm. You text your group chat a seventeen-message analysis. You ask ChatGPT if his response time is statistically significant. You even try to find zodiac compatibility articles, hoping you find something celestial or a retrograde to blame, while your spiral doesn’t get better.