In some sense, you're likely fantasizing about what could have been rather than what was. The memory of them is attractive to you for the very reason that they're not in your life anymore. Their absence is attractive because it provides our brains with the opportunity to fill the gaps with overly idealized assumptions.
In this episode I talk about "the one who got away" and why we tend to misremember the past. I talk about the idea of rose colored glasses and how to turn those forward instead of backward.
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