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How to Uncouple and Reformat

A workshop alternative to breaking up.

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Jésabel DC
Jul 23, 2025
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At the beginning of last year, my then-husband and I decided to separate after eight years together. We had a best-friends kind of relationship, but we couldn’t figure out how to be happy as individuals while still being a couple.

He was set to fly back to Italy three weeks later, so we continued living together – uncoupled but coexisting. Those three we…

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