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When You Can't Stop Checking Your Ex's Social Media

I keep checking my ex's Instagram stories even though we broke up eight months ago and seeing him with his new girlfriend makes me physically sick but I cannot stop looking.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The compulsive monitoring of a former lover's life becomes a form of self-torture that prevents the necessary work of letting go.

Ideas that help explain it
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