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How to hold both gratitude and regret for the same relationship

My marriage ended after 15 years and I feel like I wasted the best years of my life but I also know we had good times and I'm confused about how to think about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of long relationships resists simple narratives of success or failure, requiring integration of contradictory truths.

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