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Why You Can Feel Happy and Devastated About Your Ex's Engagement

My ex got engaged and I am genuinely happy for them but I also feel like I am dying inside and I do not understand how both can be true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Love's residue allows you to want their joy while simultaneously being destroyed by your exclusion from it.

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