Me Jane, Me Numbing: When Distance Becomes Dangerous
(Tarzan & Jane Story Series: Part 6 of 6)
Me Jane, Me Numbing: When Distance Becomes Dangerous
Jane had walked through stages of hurt before. First came sadness. Then anger. Then grief. But now, something even heavier settled in: numbness.
Numbness felt like apathy. Like she no longer had the energy to fight for what she wanted. She found herself pulling back, shutting down, protecting what was left of her heart.
And she knew—this was the stage that scared her most. Because when she reached numbness in life, she was usually done.
“Me Jane, Me Numbing.” It wasn’t humorous. It was haunting.
The tragedy of numbness is that it often looks quiet from the outside. Couples stop arguing, stop trying, stop caring. From a distance, they look stable, maybe even fine. But inside, the connection is deadening.
This is how marriages end—not with shouting, but with silence. Not with fireworks, but with frost.
Jane didn’t want to get there. Deep inside, she still longed to be noticed. To be marveled at. To be pursued. But each day that passed without tenderness, without attention, pushed her further toward the dangerous edge of not caring at all.
The hope? Numbness doesn’t have to be the end. But it takes honesty, urgency, and action:
Recognize the signs early. Don’t dismiss distance as “just a phase.”
Be vulnerable. Say the hard thing: “I feel like I’m shutting down.”
Seek help. Counseling, trusted mentors, intentional reconnection can rescue what silence and neglect have eroded.
Because love doesn’t die from storms alone. It dies when one heart grows numb—and the other doesn’t notice in time.
🌴 Jungle Laugh: “In the jungle of love, sometimes the lions roar… and sometimes you just step on each other’s bananas.”
💡Because if we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane — Jimmy Buffett
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