Cognitive dissonance collapse is the moment your mind and body can no longer hold two opposing truths about someone you love. When the story you’ve told yourself to survive—“they’re good, they love me, it can get better”—collides with the reality you’ve tried not to see. It’s the breaking point between illusion and truth. The moment denial stops protecting you and starts suffocating you. When your nervous system says, enough. It’s painful—but it’s also the beginning of clarity. The start of seei