You meet someone new and within a few weeks the feeling is unmistakeable. The conversations feel charged, there's a pull you can't quite explain, and something about this person seems to match your frequency in a way the previous ones didn't. Several months later, you're somewhere familiar - monitor...
Why do I miss someone who hurt me - that's the question underneath almost everything in this post. You've left, or you've been out for a few months. You can see the relationship clearly enough - the pattern, the impact, what it cost you. You can articulate it. And yet your brain will
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If you've ever found yourself completely unable to move on from a relationship that you know, logically, wasn't good for you - this doesn't make you irrational or incapable of making good decisions. You're experiencing the predictable psychological aftermath of something very specific. That somethin...
