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What this can teach about regulation and growth

You’re noticing something key:

You may need to develop ways to regulate and comfort yourself even when your closest supports aren’t fully available.

This isn’t about abandoning her or your bond — it’s about taking responsibility for your own emotional stability while maintaining connection when possible.

It’s also a very normal stage of adult friendships: intimacy ebbs and flows depending on life circumstances.


Gentle reframing

  • Your cousin still cares about you — she’s just showing it differently.

  • Your desire for closeness is not wrong — it’s how you’re wired for attachment.

  • Your grief at this shift is valid. Crying and reaching out to your best friend wasn’t weakness; it was healthy processing.

  • This is a chance to practice holding space for your own emotions, while still keeping her as a supportive presence when available.


40- people having spouses and kids and busy. 


chat:

You, on the other hand:

  • are single

  • parenting solo

  • in transition

  • reflective by nature

“I have no container”

This is the most important phrase you used.

You’re not saying “I want attention.”
You’re saying:

I need somewhere to put my thoughts so they don’t collapse inward.

Humans are not meant to self-contain everything.
That’s not weakness — that’s psychology.


What won’t work (and you’re already sensing this)

  • Waiting for old friends to return to former roles

  • Over-investing in people who can’t reciprocate

  • Pretending you don’t need reflection or dialogue

You’ve already tried those paths. They just increase grief.



What can help — realistically, in this season

Not one big solution. A few small containers instead of one person.

Here are options — not prescriptions. Take what fits.

1. Journaling — but not “blank page journaling”

If you journal, give it structure, so it actually holds you.

Examples:

  • “What happened today / What it brought up / What I need”

  • Writing letters you don’t send

  • Dialoguing with parts of yourself (the tired one, the strong one, the scared one)

This turns journaling into a container, not a task.

2. One low-stakes, consistent human touchpoint

Not a best friend. Not intimacy. Just reliable presence.

Examples:


  • a classmate you study with weekly

  • a gym class where faces become familiar

  • a church small group or choir-type space again

  • a therapist or counselor, if accessible

Consistency matters more than depth at first.

3. Externalizing without overexposing

You don’t need to tell everything to one person.

You can:

  • share one slice with one person

  • another slice with another

  • keep the deepest parts with yourself for now

That reduces the feeling of “nowhere to land.”




If I had to summarize you in one sentence (carefully, respectfully):

You are a thoughtful, emotionally generous person in a season where your old sources of connection have thinned — and you are learning how to become your own anchor while slowly making room for new, truer forms of intimacy.

And no — you are not alone in this.
You’re just early in naming it.

So you still need a place to land — a place where thoughts can breathe and feelings can be witnessed.

That difference creates loneliness, not because you’re wrong — but because your inner life still needs room.


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