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40 results for “missing someone who hurt me”
Experiences
- Ambiguous lossGrief for someone who is gone but not gone — missing, estranged, or changed beyond recognition.Established psychological concept
- Doorway GriefMissing someone most in the specific place you used to greet them.The Human Diary editorial term
- Borrowed GriefMourning intensely for someone you barely knew, on behalf of someone who cannot.The Human Diary editorial term
- SexorcismSleeping with someone new in order to get over someone old.Informal expression
- Abhimaanuh-bhee-MAANWounded pride toward someone you love, expressed as withdrawal.Established linguistic term
- Assembled LongingMissing a composite person built from several real ones.The Human Diary editorial term
- Basorexiabay-suh-REK-see-uhThe overwhelming desire to kiss someone.Informal expression
- Benjamin Franklin effectComing to like someone more after doing them a favour.Established psychological concept
- BreadcrumbingOffering just enough attention to keep someone waiting.Internet or community term
- Cafunékah-foo-NEHThe act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.Established linguistic term
- CompersionJoy at a partner's happiness with someone else.Internet or community term
- Consolation EnvyResenting how well someone is coping without you.The Human Diary editorial term
- Curiosity DebtRealising you never asked someone the questions that mattered.The Human Diary editorial term
- Delayed AttractionWanting someone only once they have stopped wanting you.The Human Diary editorial term
- DorDORA heavy, tender longing for someone absent.Established linguistic term
- FirgunFEER-goonUngrudging delight in someone else's good fortune.Established linguistic term
- Iktsuarpokeek-tsoo-AR-pokThe restless anticipation that sends you outside again and again to see whether someone is coming.Established linguistic term
- Intezaarin-teh-ZAARWaiting for someone, held as a state of being rather than an event.Established linguistic term
- Koi No Yokankoy no yo-KAHNThe sense on first meeting someone that falling in love with them is inevitable.Cultural concept
- MyötähäpeäMYEU-tah-hah-peh-ahSecond-hand shame — cringing on someone else's behalf.Established linguistic term
Stories
- GhostingThe Read ReceiptDay one, she assumed he was busy.4 min read
- BreadcrumbingEnough to Keep MeThe pattern was eleven days.3 min read
- Love bombingThe Best Six WeeksEveryone kept asking when it started going wrong, and Nadia kept saying month five, and that was the wrong answer, and it took her two years to work out why.4 min read
- The Merciful EndingThe ReliefHe said it at about ten past nine on a Sunday and Priya's first feeling — before the shock, before anything appropriate — was relief so pure it frightened her.3 min read
- NazThe TermsThe rule was that he made the tea.3 min read
- Zeigarnik effectChapter NineteenThere are one hundred and forty books on the shelf in the spare room and Oyin has finished eleven of them.3 min read
- Esprit de l'escalierOn the StairsThe remark was made at 21:14. The reply arrived at 23:52, in a taxi, on the Westway, and was perfect.3 min read
- RazbliutoThe MuseumShe saw him before he saw her, which she was glad about later, because it gave her four seconds to run the test.4 min read
- NatsukashiiThe Smell of the CorridorIt was floor polish and something else — dust on a hot radiator, possibly — and it arrived in an office building in Yokohama at eleven in the morning on an entirely ordinary Wednesday.3 min read
- AmaeThe Weight of Being CarriedKenji was forty-one and had not been ill in nine years, and had forgotten what it did to him.4 min read
- AlexithymiaThe Word for It"How does that make you feel?"3 min read
- Threshold LonelinessThe Eighth FloorThere were nineteen people at the table and Farah had spoken forty words.4 min read
- FirgunSay It to His FaceThe Israeli got it wrong for a year, which is how Tal learned the shape of the English.3 min read
- GigilThe Cheeks"Don't," said Marisol's daughter, without looking up.3 min read
- Proximity BlindnessEleven Years of TuesdaysThe problem was the coat.3 min read
- Archive FondnessThe Airport BookshopThey had four hours and a shared gate, which is the only reason it happened.4 min read
- DeluluThe Group Chat KnowsTASH: ok so he liked the photo from 20193 min read
- Koi No YokanThe PremonitionThey put him next to her at a wedding, which is how these things are still arranged despite everything.3 min read
- MuditaThe Second EnvelopeThey had applied for the same grant, which was foolish, and both of them had known it was foolish, and neither had been willing to be the one who withdrew.3 min read
- DorThe Village in WinterThere is a sound the gate makes.3 min read