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Hi there, it's Dora, and you're listening to Radio Headspace.

So some endings arrive with clarity, a conversation, a decision, a defined moment of closure.

And then there's other endings, the ones that just drift. No final talk. No thank you for everything.

No explanation.

Just a growing silence, a slow fade, an unanswered message.

A relationship, a friendship, a job over.

Without ever being declared as such.

And you're left holding the weight of something that no one else is naming.

I've had a few friendships like this. One day we're trading daily check-ins and laughing at an

inside joke, and then suddenly the text become fewer. The calls stop, and the friendship just

ends without anyone ever saying it out loud.

Now, not every goodbye is clean or mutual.

And when closure doesn't come from the outside, we often feel stuck in the middle, between what was and what will never be.

Mindfulness doesn't erase the pain of that ambiguity,

but it does give us tools to meet it with compassion,

to make space for all that we're carrying,

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