Boundaries: Why They Hurt So Good

What no one tells you about the grief, chaos, and field collapse that follows coherence.

Vogue , Saudi Arabia 2022

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Real boundaries don’t just protect you—they sever contracts your nervous system signed without your consent.

And when you withdraw your signal from a field that once depended on your over-availability? The grief isn’t just about the person. It’s about the version of you that kept that pattern alive. That’s the collapse.

And this is what we’re never taught to expect—and exactly what this essay is here to unpack.

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Not enough people talk about the void that opens after you set a boundary.

It’s a hollowing…. More like a rupture.

And Not the triumphant kind—the meme-lore, high-vibe reclamation arc. I’m talking about the kind that flattens your cellular structure into a two dimensional shape. The kind that leaves you staring into space wondering if you just made a mistake. If you were too harsh. Too much. Too little. Too late.

Because when you set a real boundary—the kind that doesn’t orchestrate empowerment but anchors it—something doesn’t just end. It dies. And if that connection was built on even the subtlest trace of codependence, you’ll feel it instantly. Not just in your thoughts, but in your marrow of your bones. In your nervous system circuitry. Within the energetic fragments where their presence used to be.

That void—that rupture—isn’t just blank space. It’s the ghost of the relationship that used to live there. The echo of the dynamic you had to walk away from.

The fear whispers. The anger sharpens. The silence stretches. And that’s why it’s not just empty space. It’s a chaotic, anatomical alchemy of things your body is trying to metabolize:

1. Grief. You’re mourning the loss of what was and the loss of what you hoped it might become. Even if the relationship was distorted, it was still connection. A familiar script your nervous system rehearsed daily. Now that script is gone, and the body feels the disorientation of silence.

2. Doubt + guilt. The “what ifs” creep in—Was I too harsh? Did I cut too soon? Especially if the other person comes back with hurt, blame, or subtle manipulation. Suddenly you’re cast as the bad guy for prioritizing your own coherence, a role your old conditioning primed you to avoid at all costs.

3. Fear. The void is loud, and it whispers: What if this is it? What if I’m alone now? Was the discomfort of the old dynamic better than this silence? That fear is seductive—it tempts you to rescind the boundary just to fill the emptiness.

4. Anger. The righteous rage of being the one who had to rupture. Anger that they couldn’t simply meet you in respect, forcing you to play executioner. Anger that the responsibility for the emotional labor landed in your lap—again.

And that’s why this vacancy feels so volatile—it isn’t just silence, it’s architecture deconstructing. Which raises the real question: why does the rupture cut so deep, and why does it live in the body like loss?

From a quantum psychosomatic perspective, a boundary isn’t just a “no.” It’s a structural reorganization. A frequency severing. A total re-render of the relationship’s foundation.

That emptiness you feel? It’s not imagined. It’s the space that used to be filled with:

• The rhythm of dysfunction. The predictable loop of over-giving, quiet resentment, then giving again. Exhausting, yes—but familiar. Your body could track it.

• The tether of their presence. The texts, the calls, the “you free?” check-ins. Demanding, but orienting. Suddenly, that organizing principle is gone.

• A piece of your identity. The role you played—the reliable one, the nice one, the one who never says no. Losing it feels like losing a piece of yourself, even if that piece was built from distortion.

• The hope. The fantasy that maybe they’d change without you having to rupture. That maybe you could keep the bond without building a wall. The boundary kills that dream.

Think of it as dismantling a compromised foundation. The old structure, though flawed, provided a familiar support. Its demolition is a deliberate rupture—a violent but necessary release. What follows is a void: a silent, empty space where the dust has settled but the new architecture has yet to rise. This interim is not nothingness, but potential—the raw site where a truer, more resilient self will be built.

The rupture is that terrifying, necessary moment of implosion. The void is the sacred interim—a naked but stable silence where the architecture of the new you is still coming into form.

I recently had to set a strong, non-negotiable boundary with a long-time friend. We’d done this dance before: periods of lockstep resonance mixed with sudden, instant disconnection. Each time more exhausting from negotiating my value. Made worse by repeated chances of “just-love-her-through-it-rhetoric” excused as reconciliations.

Not to sound trite, but finding real friends in my line of work—the kind that anticipates and feels when you're spiraling, and reaches out, not just the ones who double-tap your vacation pics—is a rare thing.

It’s made even more challenging when you’re always in a different time zone, with full lives, and most conversations start and end with 'We should totally connect next time you're in town!' Or when someone says, 'I’ve got pockets of time tomorrow,' but never makes the actual effort to get up earlier, schedule, or lock in a time to be present.

But I get it—I read patterns for a living, and not everyone wants to be read to filth on a Tuesday afternoon. There’s a razor’s edge between clarity and defense. Between intimacy and intrusion. Between pacing with someone’s expansion and excavating the very identity they’re clinging to for stability.

So I began asking myself different questions:
Where am I willing to be held to the same standard I hold others to?
Where does reciprocity actually live, not just get implied?
And where have I mistaken spiritual proximity for actual support?

This time, I caught the pattern: The choreography of psychic codependent looping—like an echo—still living in my field. It was old. Not overtly toxic. But deeply contracting in its subtle familiarity.

Tethered to an invisible contract written years ago: I’ll be hyper-available to you, as long as you stay connected to me. I’ll hold the mirror. I’ll hold the field. I’ll help you rise. And every now and then, when I’m spiraling in my own soup and can’t see clearly—you’ll throw me a ping.

Except the ratio was wildly skewed. My dips were infrequent and brief. Hers were often. Extended. Recursive. We’d both begun expanding—But the way we held that expansion couldn’t have been more different.

That’s the familiar choreography of Co-Dependant, narcissistic theatre: She’d wobble—I’d stabilize her. Her power returned. Her vision clicked. And then she got busy. She’d give me transactional windows: “I have 15 minutes, where you at girl?” “Gunna be in the car for 20, you free?” If I wasn’t, she’d call anyway. Sometimes two, three times in a row. As if her time was sacred—and mine wasn’t.

It was giving Pretty Woman. It was giving back-and-call girl. It was giving transaction. Not devotion

Still, that electric, resonant crumb of her presence was enough to pacify me—enough to make me doubt my own body’s truth. But our connections grew strained; she was fragmented, floating in a fantasy I could no longer translate.

This time, something in me snapped.

The contact frayed, and I was left too malnourished to recover, simmering with a resentment that clenched tight in my chest. The real sting wasn’t the loss—it was the self-betrayal. She had built a new life from the blueprint I helped her retrieve, but she couldn’t hold me without the old dynamic that once sustained her.

This pattern will have you wondering if you were too harsh—second-guessing your newly established bar. And in the reflexive muscle memory of self-justification, you’ll remember: when she was present, she was electric. Clear. Resonant. And those small crumbs were enough to keep me pacified. Enough to make me doubt what I already knew in my body.

Welcome to Psychic Co-Dependancy 101.

This is how transformational work works for me: I go through it, dissect its architecture, then emerge to share the findings. And what I uncovered was this: the body doesn’t just release a person. It must include releasing the pattern/s they activated. And this particular set of patterns were various ways we perform safety through subtle self-erasure.

That’s the part no one prepares you for. The way the dissonance feels in the body when someone you love dearly outgrows the version of you that once supported them—because that version was entangled in their becoming. And when you refuse to collapse back into that old shape once that boundary is established the field isn’t always kind.

What you’re left with is the void. The silent space that follows a newly buffered rendering of yourself.

From a Quantum Psychosomatic perspective this is: A survival loop where identity is shaped around energetic usefulness. The body learns to stabilize others as a form of connection, while quietly bypassing its own needs in exchange for proximity.

Once a boundary is set, you move into a period of de-pixelation: you’re between new and old versions, feeling the psychic echo of a connection that once fit. It’s the frequency withdrawal that happens when you stop offering energetic translation, and the other person doesn’t know how to speak your language without it.

I used to think this void meant I’d done something wrong. Now I know it means I stopped doing something that was never mine to carry. They dismantle the you that was willing to bend, to hold, to soften—to stay tethered to something long after your body stopped consenting to it.

The irony is: this wasn’t a blow-up. There was no big rupture. Only a low-humming, field-wide mismatch. I stopped contorting. And without me constantly trying to match her, the closeness collapsed.

There’s a difference between matching and meeting someone. Do you know it?

Here’s the truth: you can’t repair a dynamic that only existed inside your nervous system. You can’t resuscitate a choreography you’ve outgrown—not without shrinking again just to stay in rhythm.

This is the real medicine of boundaries. Not the surface-level “no.” But the energetic cancellation of a contract you never meant to sign.

After a boundary is set, the mind spirals: Maybe I was too much. Maybe I should’ve handled it differently. It’s a cognitive rupture. Emotionally, it’s a quiet resentment—a grief that feels like abandonment. The body registers it somatically: a tight chest, a locked throat, nausea. It’s the purge of a phantom contract collapsing. Behaviorally, the pattern pushes toward over-explaining, reaching back out to repair, delaying boundaries, or shape-shifting to maintain connection.

And at the frequency level, the phantom reciprocity contract dissolves; alignment is withdrawn, the field fragments, and the void opens in the silence where fusion used to live. They don’t just protect you. They grieve you. They dismantle the you that was willing to bend, to hold, to soften—to stay tethered long after your body stopped consenting to it.

Let them meet the version of you that doesn’t chase. That doesn’t collapse. That doesn’t translate her essence for easier digestion.

Let the void widen. Let it reverberate. Let it burn off the distortion that used to feel like closeness. Because on the other side of the silence is something quieter—but far more honest. A frequency of connection that doesn't cost you your clarity. Your dignity.

Or worse—the scattered fragments left from every negotiation you made to stay close.

Let this be a reminder and also a permission slip that the pattern ends with you.

Big Love

Tx

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