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    Dear Therapist: I Still Obsess About My Ex From a Decade Ago

    I’m 40 now, and I feel like a fool.
    by Lori Gottlieb May 23, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: The Atlantic

    Editor’s Note: Every Wednesday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com.

    Dear Therapist,

    I’m a 40-year-old single woman. Never married, no children, and I’ve been struggling for years to get over my ex. He was my first love and we met when I was in my early 20s. It was a very immature relationship that culminated in me breaking up with him finally (for about the third or fourth time), mostly because of a growing fear that I knew I would want kids and was worried that I was wasting my time with someone who wasn’t willing to work on a future with me.

    This was more than 10 years ago, and

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