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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Part of the reason you can’t let go is because you have relived your past in your own relationship. Your wife, like your mother is an alcoholic.
Your parents are still together. How old are they?
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Yeah, repetition compulsion is much more likely than limerance, i would say. I was going to say yesterday that it sounded like your dad was jealous of you, but i didnt understand why. Now i see it. "The sins of the father are visited upon the son." Not ON PURPOSE, they just ARE; like its inescapable that you meet with the same fate if the problems are not resolved in the prior generation.
Eta - armorplate - great story about DD and MIL. Now i see why your name!