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Why being the other woman creates impossible hope cycles

I'm the other woman and I know he'll never leave his wife but I keep hoping that if I'm patient enough and perfect enough he'll choose me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love, when channeled through unavailability, becomes a form of self-torture disguised as devotion.

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