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309. Divorce Hypervigilance & Overanalyzing: The Cost of Being the Only Adult In the Room
Hypervigilance doesn’t come from wanting control.
It comes from realizing—often too early—that no one else was going to handle it.
After divorce, many women find themselves overanalyzing everything: conversations, tone shifts, finances, social dynamics, parenting decisions, other people’s moods. Not because they’re anxious by nature—but because their bodies learned that vigilance was the price of stability.
In this episode of Dear Divorce Diary, we name the real cost of being the only adult in the room.
You’ll hear why:
Hypervigilance is a role your body took on when things became unstable…
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