With eyes closed, imagine you are sitting across from the person you want to gain some emotional
distance from. Picture the two of you in straight-backed dining chairs knee-to-knee.
Then picture rope binding you. Or imagine all the strings attaching you.
See how entangled you two are.
Now imagine a giant pair of scissors — like those used in ribbon-cutting ceremonies —
coming in and snipping all those strings. Snip, snip, snip.
See the cut ends fall away and dissolve, freeing you to go on feeling your own feelings,
living your own life unattached to this person who is now independent of you.
Breathe.