Finding Closure: Choose Embodiment Over Explanations

Conversations of closure are believed to be a time to reveal and heal the sting of love gone wrong. One partner often feels like they are ‘owed’ closure but conversations of closure are often curated.

The tricky truth is that we aren’t owed someone else's truth, we aren’t entitled to explanations, and past partners aren’t responsible for paraphrasing their internal processes to us. An old lover owes you nothing, but you do owe yourself something. You owe yourself the love you once gave them.

Conversations of closure are believed to be a time to reveal and heal the sting of love gone wrong. One partner often feels like they are ‘owed’ closure. But conversations of closure are often curated excuses from one or both partners to experience time together—just one last time, right?