LibraryScenariosHow Past Love Can Haunt New Relationships After Divorce
Scenario

How Past Love Can Haunt New Relationships After Divorce

I'm dating someone wonderful but I keep comparing everything he does to how my ex-husband used to love me before everything fell apart.

Mira
Online
The coach is replying

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

New love must compete not only with what was lost but with the idealized version of what once was.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Divorce and Its Emotional Aftermath?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.