Intimacy

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  Adult Children of Narcissists - Boundaries - cPTSD - cPTSD Healing - Emotional Abuse - Gen X - Generational Trauma - Hypervigilance - Intimacy - Narcissistic Abuse Recovery - Recovery - Survivor - Trauma

  When Life Is Just… Being Life

  January 15, 2026 - By Andrew Pumpelly

  I didn’t post last Thursday.I didn’t post Tuesday, either. And for the first time since I started this blog, that absence felt noticeable. Not dramatic.Not catastrophic.Just… different. For months now, I’ve been writing on a steady rhythm — Tuesdays and Thursdays, like clockwork. That consistency mattered to me. It was…

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  cPTSD - Intimacy - Narcissistic Parent - Recovery - Survivor - Trauma - Triggers

  The Kind of Freedom I Was Really Afraid of Losing

  November 28, 2025 - By Andrew Pumpelly

  After Thanksgiving dinner this year, sitting across from my sister and her husband, something landed in me that I hadn’t fully named before. I watched the way they moved around each other — the subtle ease, the quiet partnership, the shared language that only years of safety can build. And…