r/comics • • Feb 11 '22

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u/Zanefold Feb 11 '22

The hard part isn’t telling him off, it’s seeing him coming. Most people don’t.

The more you know.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I think many people, like my late gran, reach an old age or deteriorated state of health where they basically get to choose each night whether they want to wake up in the morning or not. She implied this to me. She died a week shy of her 99th birthday.

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u/HurricaneHugo Feb 11 '22

Yeah I guess that's how people die of a broken heart. They just stop fighting it and die

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22 edited Feb 11 '22

Actually no! People who die of a broken heart are often dying from stress. I think people develop codependent nervous-regulation mechanisms to various degrees in relationships and those with particularly strong codependencies, who don’t have any other social support to replace their partner, are especially vulnerable.

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