Avoidant Book
A Chapter That Might Have Been Told in Passing
A woman came in after a breakup and said, “I’m going to heal.”
A therapeutic chapter on the avoidant pattern, told the Ericksonian way: in stories.
A therapeutic chapter9 min
Two short stories, each in a reader built around it.
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Fake Love
The Going Rate
Everyone said Noa and Adam were in love.
Two people in love at the going rate, with the transactional analysis under each move one tap away.
An annotated ministory9 min25 notes
Noa said, “Go. Honestly. I don’t mind.”
There were two sentences inside that sentence. Adam chose the words, because the words were safer, and went.
He came home before midnight to an apartment at the wrong temperature.
The sentence under the sentenceTransaction
An ulterior transaction runs on two levels at once: the social level (the words — go, I don’t mind) and the psychological level (the message — stay; choose me). Berne’s rule: the outcome of a transaction is decided at the psychological level. Adam answered the words. The evening was decided by the message.
Colophon
- One section at a time
- Each story reads a section per page, with a progress bar, a table of contents, and prev and next wherever your thumb is.
- Yours to adjust
- Search the text, narrow to the key parts, set the font size and spacing, light or dark. Each story remembers its own settings and your place.
- Notes, when a story has them
- Fake Love's highlights open notes on what is really happening in each exchange. One switch turns them off for a clean read.
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- No accounts, no analytics, no network calls. The stories are the whole page, and once you have opened them they read offline too.
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