Your friend texted about dinner and you said yes, added the exclamation point, and then noticed the heaviness settling in your chest. The affection is real. So is the confusion. A somatic therapist on what might be happening.

You can explain your childhood with precision. You understand attachment, you've read the books, you've done the work. And you're still carrying something that thinking can't reach. What happens when insight hits its limit.

You used to be able to handle things. Now your husband is eating cereal and you're contemplating divorce. Welcome to perimenopause.