Unraveling – Chapter list

Story abstract

unravel (v.)

c. 1600 (transitive), from un- (2) + ravel (v.). Intransitive from 1640s. ” The prefix is either reversive or intensive, according as ravel is taken to mean ‘tangle’ or ‘untangle'” [Century Dictionary].

 

Breaking up can be traumatic, but so can be getting back together. If previous traumas and mistakes still afflict a couple’s emotional wellbeing, pushing them on potentially destructive patterns of behavior, turning fears into silence and leaving poisonous memories untouched, the risk becomes enormous.

 

The only thing that remains in order to survive together is to solve, untangle or undo what was previously done, becoming untangled. It’s about disengaging and separating the threads that used to make each partner feel as if they were still in one piece, but then ended up entangling them. It’s only when two people are both willing to do that that they can truly unravel, resolve the intricacy, complexity, and obscurity of who they have become.

 

Who have Michael and Lisa become? Who will they be at the end of this journey?

 

A story beginning in 2004 and finding real closure only in 2011.

 

 

“And what happens when all the threads of the tapestry have been traveled? Do you then go over them again and again in an attempt to relive the best parts? Because nothing will be like that first experience. Nothing.”
― Karen Lord

 

 

Chapter List

• Chapter 1 – Then
• Chapter 2 – Take me higher
• Chapter 3 – Everything has changed
• Chapter 4 – Breathe
• Chapter 5 – The bubble
• Chapter 6 – Not like them
• Chapter 7 – Where has our folly gone
• Chapter 8 – Now
• Chapter 9 – Tourniquet
• Chapter 10 – Disarm
• Chapter 11 – Swing
• Chapter 12 – That unexpected intensity
• Chapter 13 – Claiming
• Chapter 14 – The rain
• Chapter 15 – Take shelter
• Chapter 16 – Resolve
• Chapter 17 – A work in progress
• Chapter 18 – Break the cycle
• Chapter 19 – The shape of things
• Chapter 20 – The tree – Epilogue