IT’S A SHAME THAT THIS DIDN’T WORK

“It’s a shame this didn’t work.” is one of the greatest acts of psychological misdirection in intimate relationships? What if the relationship worked perfectly? It revealed the attachment. It exposed the insecurity. It uncovered the fantasy. It demonstrated the limits of compatibility. It forced hidden expectations into daylight. It introduced two nervous systems to each other’s unresolved history. Perhaps nothing malfunctioned. Perhaps revelation was mistaken for failure. The deeper question becomes: Who decided that every relationship was supposed to survive what it was actually designed to expose?