💸 “How to Emotionally Detach from a Spreadsheet Addict”

Because you deserve a life beyond line items and petty expense approvals.

✂️ Step 1: Close the Tab—On Your Browser and Your Life

Delete the shared folder.
Unshare the Google Sheet.
Clear your cookies and your conscience.

He doesn’t need to track your mascara purchases anymore.
You’re free. You can buy a croissant just because you feel like it—no pie chart required.

💔 Step 2: Grieve the Idea That Love Was Ever About Numbers

He didn’t love you.
He loved monitoring you.
There’s a difference.

He confused control with care, budgeting with bonding, and Excel with emotional intimacy.
But you? You now know that love isn’t conditional on Column Totals.

🔥 Step 3: Burn the Budget Guilt

He made you feel guilty for buying shoes.
For spending on your children.
For being generous.

Meanwhile, he was playing Santa Claus to strangers and sweating over whether you put the heating on twice in one day.

That guilt?
It wasn’t yours.
It was a control tactic.

Throw that guilt where it belongs:
in the recycling bin with last year’s outdated spending graphs.

👑 Step 4: Reclaim Your Power, One Joyful Purchase at a Time

Buy yourself the nice bread.
Light the scented candle.
Get the earrings your daughter said you looked stunning in.

Spend on what feels GOOD, not what’s been pre-approved.
Every time you spend without shame, you chip away at his imaginary hold over you.

📓 Step 5: Create a New Ledger (for You)

Start a new list:

  • 🌱 Joyful things I bought this month
  • 💌 Things I gave without asking permission
  • 🛍️ Gifts I bought because I wanted to, not because I had to justify them

You’re allowed to have a spreadsheet.
Just make sure it tracks memories, not control.
Healing, not surveillance.

🎤 Final Thoughts: The Formula Didn’t Work Because You’re Not a Formula

You are not a cell in his budget.
You are not an expense to be audited.
You are a human being with needs, dreams, and deep value.

He lost everything because he chose a spreadsheet over a soulmate.
And you?
You lost the spreadsheet and gained your soul back.

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