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When You Keep Recreating Your Original Wound

I keep dating the same type of emotionally unavailable men and I know it's because my dad left when I was eight but I can't seem to stop

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Unconscious repetition compulsion is seeking resolution through familiar pain

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Letting the past hold you vs. learning from it?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.