Recognition and Healing After a Toxic Relationship – A Personal Perspective

Why I’m sharing this Some people ask why I share such personal experiences in public. My answer is simple: because recognition opens healing. Because silence holds pain. And because those who live with the consequences of a toxic relationship often end up doubting their own experience. I don’t write to accuse, but to understand. Not … Read more

When Trust Breaks

There are moments in a relationship that you only recognize as turning points afterwards.One moment you still believe everything can be repaired with effort and goodwill.The next, you realize: something is lost that won’t come back. What exactly is it? Often not love. Or communication. Or even closeness.But trust. The loss of trust is not … Read more

Chapter 42 – When Ego Takes over

A story of choices and loss The end of Turbo The liquidation is official.The opposing party agreed.The ruling is final. As soon as the judgment is formally served, Turbo will cease to exist in its current form.How things will unfold from here, only time will tell. I knew this was coming.And still, part of me … Read more

What Gabor Maté showed me about my own story

1. How I found him I had reached a point where something no longer felt right. Not in what I did, but in how I lived. My body was sending signals I could no longer ignore: fatigue, tension, resistance to things I used to do without hesitation. My mind didn’t understand, but my system was … Read more

Chapter 41 – The loss that wasn’t mine – but that I still carried

1. The aftermath in the heart of the storm There was no peace. No closure. No gentle processing. Only a storm that kept raging, in ever new forms. From procedure to procedure, from demand to counter-demand, from hope to frustration. My mind understood what was at stake. But my body was carrying something else: exhaustion. … Read more

Chapter 40 – The Price of Keeping On

They framed me as someone I wasn’t.An addict.Unreliable.A danger. And still… I couldn’t truly blame her. Everyone has their own version of the truth.And in her eyes,maybe that’s what she saw.Or needed to see,to make her story make sense. But it cut deep.Not because she attacked me,but because I had done everything I could to … Read more

Chapter 39 – The Accusation of My Softness

That first night, I prepared myself.I didn’t have a lawyer.But I had the truth.And the clear intention not to let this become a war. I didn’t want to blame.I didn’t want to accuse.Certainly not destroy. I just wanted…to explain where I stood.To show my choices.Not as an attack,but as an act of care. The judge … Read more

Chapter 38 – The Break I Could No Longer Hold Back

I knew it was necessary.I had waited long enough.Watched in silence.Hoped for a solutionthat, deep down, I knew wouldn’t come. I had put myself on hold for years.Out of respect.Out of hope.Out of fear.For the relationship.For the children.For the business. But now…I couldn’t go on like this. I had to act.For me.For them.For whatever was … Read more