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When the past reaches into the present

My first love contacted me after fifteen years and wants to meet, and I'm happily married but I can't stop thinking about them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

First love creates neurological imprints that can be reactivated across decades, threatening current attachments.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Falling in love — the neuroscience and the phenomenology?”

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