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When every new relationship gets compared to your toxic ex

Every man I date now gets compared to him and either they're too similar and I run or they're too different and I feel bored.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche uses the familiar as a measuring stick, creating impossible standards of either complete opposition or dangerous similarity.

Ideas that help explain it
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