On the day the relationship truly collapsed, there was no argument, only one message.
“What are you doing?”
He didn’t reply, not because he was busy, but because he was not in a hurry.
She stared at the screen, her heartbeat faster than the candlestick chart, so she added:
“I miss you so much.”
This is not a declaration of love; it’s the first shot of panic.
There is a cruel resonance effect in the crypto world. When the market drops, people start to panic; When people panic, relationships begin to add to their positions.
She watched her account’s floating loss while staring at the blank chat box. So the messages started stacking up, like leverage.
“Can you understand me?” “Why don’t you reply to my messages?” “Am I bothering you?”
By this point, she was no longer waiting for him, She was waiting for proof that she hadn’t been abandoned.
He finally replied.
“Just busy.”
Four words, no explanation, no emotion, no comfort.
She knew clearly in her heart that everything was already wrong. But she chose to continue anyway.
Because in the crypto world and in love, the biggest fear isn’t loss, it’s giving up.
She began to mask her humility with maturity.
“You’re really so dismissive.” “No worries, you go ahead and be busy.” “Get some rest early.”
It looks decent, but in reality, she was gradually giving up her dignity.
Just like knowing the trend is bad but telling yourself: Wait a little longer, maybe it will rebound?
The real death zone is ahead.
She started asking about identities. “Who is she?” “Do you really like me?” “You weren’t like this before.”
She scrolled through chat logs, promises, screenshots, like flipping through whitepapers in a bear market, trying to prove: I didn’t get the wrong person at the start.
When she finally sent the last message, her hand was trembling:
“What is our relationship now?”
This relationship had actually been settled long ago. She was just still adding to her positions alone.
The crypto world teaches you stop-loss, position management, risk control, but no one tells you one thing:
People who keep adding to their positions in relationships, end up in a worse situation than a margin call.
All those 15 sentences essentially mean only one thing: “Can you prove that I am still worth being wanted?”
When you start talking like this, you are no longer in love, you are begging for something that is leaving to turn back.
Remember this harsh truth: any relationship that requires you to repeatedly prove yourself, has already stopped considering you as a core variable.
Just like price, once you start watching, questioning, fearing loss, you are already in the position of being harvested.
She finally understood later.
It’s not that she’s not good enough; it’s that she’s using loss-averse thinking to talk about love.
A good relationship wouldn’t force you to send a whole set of self-deprecating messages.
Just like a good trade, it wouldn’t make you lose your dignity.
If you’ve been in the crypto world long enough, you’ve definitely seen this ending.
And maybe, you are the nameless person in the story.
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She is not abandoned
She is one step at a time, sending herself away
On the day the relationship truly collapsed, there was no argument, only one message.
“What are you doing?”
He didn’t reply, not because he was busy, but because he was not in a hurry.
She stared at the screen, her heartbeat faster than the candlestick chart, so she added:
“I miss you so much.”
This is not a declaration of love; it’s the first shot of panic.
There is a cruel resonance effect in the crypto world.
When the market drops, people start to panic;
When people panic, relationships begin to add to their positions.
She watched her account’s floating loss while staring at the blank chat box.
So the messages started stacking up, like leverage.
“Can you understand me?”
“Why don’t you reply to my messages?”
“Am I bothering you?”
By this point, she was no longer waiting for him,
She was waiting for proof that she hadn’t been abandoned.
He finally replied.
“Just busy.”
Four words, no explanation, no emotion, no comfort.
She knew clearly in her heart that everything was already wrong.
But she chose to continue anyway.
Because in the crypto world and in love,
the biggest fear isn’t loss, it’s giving up.
She began to mask her humility with maturity.
“You’re really so dismissive.”
“No worries, you go ahead and be busy.”
“Get some rest early.”
It looks decent, but in reality, she was gradually giving up her dignity.
Just like knowing the trend is bad but telling yourself:
Wait a little longer, maybe it will rebound?
The real death zone is ahead.
She started asking about identities.
“Who is she?”
“Do you really like me?”
“You weren’t like this before.”
She scrolled through chat logs, promises, screenshots,
like flipping through whitepapers in a bear market, trying to prove: I didn’t get the wrong person at the start.
When she finally sent the last message, her hand was trembling:
“What is our relationship now?”
This relationship had actually been settled long ago.
She was just still adding to her positions alone.
The crypto world teaches you stop-loss, position management, risk control,
but no one tells you one thing:
People who keep adding to their positions in relationships,
end up in a worse situation than a margin call.
All those 15 sentences essentially mean only one thing:
“Can you prove that I am still worth being wanted?”
When you start talking like this, you are no longer in love,
you are begging for something that is leaving to turn back.
Remember this harsh truth: any relationship that requires you to repeatedly prove yourself,
has already stopped considering you as a core variable.
Just like price, once you start watching, questioning, fearing loss,
you are already in the position of being harvested.
She finally understood later.
It’s not that she’s not good enough; it’s that she’s using loss-averse thinking to talk about love.
A good relationship wouldn’t force you to send a whole set of self-deprecating messages.
Just like a good trade, it wouldn’t make you lose your dignity.
If you’ve been in the crypto world long enough, you’ve definitely seen this ending.
And maybe, you are the nameless person in the story.