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When You Realize You Loved an Illusion Instead of a Person

I think I love the idea of my ex more than I ever loved the actual person, and now I don't know if any of my feelings were real.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Romantic projection obscured genuine perception, questioning the authenticity of past emotional experience.

Worth thinking about

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