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Old Jul 13, 2023, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Have Hope View Post
I think what gets me is knowing that I loved someone fully who can't love me back. And that really hurts. For nearly five years, I tried. I bent over backwards to do things for him, out of love for him. And no matter what I did and no matter how hard I tried, he's never going to love me back in the same way, or even remotely the same. He doesn't know how to love... not. me, and not anyone. What a waste of five precious years of my life,

There's something called the Sunk Cost Fallacy which makes it hard to give up on something we've invested a bunch of time and/or money in. So this is even more reason to be kind to yourself and proud of yourself for leaving that relationship, because it's a very hard thing to do.
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