That Guy

Men don’t seek counseling… they seek new women.

Not healing. Not accountability. Not inner work. Just a fresh start with someone who doesn’t know the script yet. Someone who hasn’t seen behind the curtain. Someone they can impress with the same charm, the same story, the same false humility—because she hasn’t learned how deep the damage goes. Yet.

Instead of going to therapy, they go back to being “that guy.”

Instead of owning the pain they caused, they gaslight the memory of it.

Instead of rebuilding what they broke, they rebuild their image in someone else’s eyes.

Because healing requires honesty. Growth demands discomfort. Accountability asks for vulnerability. And some men would rather protect their ego than do the uncomfortable work of unpacking their trauma, their pride, their insecurities, and the patterns they keep blaming on “crazy exes.”

So they ghost the woman who knew the truth…

And charm the one who doesn’t.

They don’t want growth, they want a reset.

Not to change—just to relocate the lie.

But here’s the thing: you can run from your past, but it catches up in your patterns. You can get a new girl, a new number, a new city—but if the same version of you shows up, the story will end the same. Because unhealed men ruin new hearts.

Ladies, never take it personally when a man skips over healing and moves on quickly. That’s not a reflection of your worth. That’s a sign of how deep his avoidance runs. He didn’t choose her because she’s better—he chose her because she doesn’t yet require what you did: growth, honesty, emotional maturity.

Let him lie in peace. Let him pretend. Because that cycle only repeats until he finally meets himself. And that moment? Can’t be avoided forever.

And for the men reading this—go to therapy.

Heal so your love doesn’t become someone else’s lesson.

Do the work so your next relationship isn’t just a rerun in a different outfit.

The truth will always require more from you than a lie. But the truth will set you free.

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse. As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven. I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child. I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power.. I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination.. Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative". It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..

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