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Ex-love: The haunting nature of past relationships

Have you ever fell hard for someone, the would-be love of your life? If you could you would whisk them down the aisle of the chapel in an eye wink. But there is a hitch. There isn't an equitable return on your heart's investment. Has this chest pain ever happen to you? Have you ever stood in a puddle of tears?

Did you stay in such a heartbreak even though it was a less-than-wonderful wonderful relationship? Did the love of your life have another agenda and a permanent relationship was an impossible long-shot? You know, those happy romances in appearance only. But even knowing this, you still couldn't ward off nor harness an insatiable lusty appetite for this touchable illusion. I think it's safe to say that all of us, who are normal, have experienced an out of sync romance or two. These breathless amusements can last quite a while, but the heartache can linger much longer. But sometimes the hurt doesn't become distance that much faster even with a new love interest; and the baggage, it invites itself, it's a part of the package.

Everyone seems to love the wide appeal of those beautiful one-sided romances. But their order of movements follow a path of conflict: you have time for romance, they are too busy; you are obsessed, they are less than infactuated; you miss them, they only think about you every once in awhile; you have time for nothing else except the one you love, they have time for everything else except the one that's really fond of them - you; you are always available, they are always unavailable; you are hopelessly lost in love, they offer the return of your love no hope; you want to be in love and stuff, they want to play around and do other stuff. So you have a fragile ego and they have an overblown one...only one of your heart deposits will yield any interest.

You want to date again but your mind is uptight and says no, your heart says you have to. Your mind says no again. Your heart says you must. The past experience makes you recoil, even from an alluring presence of irresistible attraction. You have an uncontrollable stutter as you're drawn to that enticingly sly smile, but there is something yet pulling you in another direction, a powerful tug of war ensues. Just the heart and mind at it again. After a bad romantic experience, we tend to talk ourselves into and out of and back into a potential relationship in the same sentence. Perhaps it's just the instincts of an experienced mind sheltering an experienced inexperienced heart, a sort of preventive


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