Psychology says some people don’t miss you, they miss the version of themselves you brought out when you were around
It is an exceedingly common scenario encountered within the therapeutic space: a client laments the painful, lingering end of a past relationship, romantic or platonic, entirely convinced that their ongoing, obsessive grief is definitive proof of the other person’s irreplaceable nature. They endlessly dissect old text messages, replay decades-old memories like curated film loops, and … Read more