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How to handle birthday messages from your ex-spouse

My ex-husband texted me happy birthday yesterday and I cried for an hour because it felt like he still knew me but also like he was a stranger.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Familiar gestures from estranged intimates reveal the uncanny valley between who we were together and who we are apart.

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