Relationship Loss

Marriages and friendships that couldn't survive the shift

14.2% broadly reported · 108 accounts
8.7% confirmed minimum · 66 accounts
What is this

Marriages end, friendships dissolve, family relationships become strained or estranged. When one person's fundamental reality shifts, relationships built on a shared sense of reality can struggle to survive.

Several accounts describe this as among the most painful aspects of the process — not the shift itself but the relationships lost in its wake, and the loneliness of that loss.


How common is it
108
Broadly reported
Includes passing mentions, implied references, and clear descriptions — anyone whose account touched on this theme.
66
Confirmed minimum
Explicit first-person descriptions with real specificity. The conservative count — what was clearly and unambiguously described.

From the accounts
In fact, it took place more, for a couple of years afterward, I assumed that it had taken place during lovemaking with a woman who was my first intimate partner after leaving his work, and my wife had left me shortly before I left Adi Da's work.
My wife at the time, our partner at the time, left and went and had an affair with somebody who had money because the guy who brought in all the money was now maybe never going to recover and was going to be retarded the rest of his life.
And I had a relationship between that first marriage and this where that wife rings without paper, had affairs.
And two days after my partner sat me down and said, "I'm ending the relationship".

Common experience types

Experience types that appear most often alongside this.


Often appears alongside

Other integration challenges that co-occur most frequently in the same accounts.


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