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When sacrifice in love leaves lasting regret

I fell in love with someone while I was married and chose to stay with my spouse, but two years later I still think about them every day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Choosing duty over desire can create a chronic ache that questions whether we honored love or abandoned it.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

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