# Realizing that You Are at Risk of Becoming like Your Partner's Psycho Ex

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 3, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realizing-that-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-like-your-partners-psycho-ex/969025 "2022-08-03T13:56:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Moonrise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonrise/32/14764_2.png) [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/realizing-that-you-are-at-risk-of-becoming-like-your-partners-psycho-ex/969025/51 "2022-08-24T19:07:21Z")

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The break-up doesn’t trouble me. Our relationship had lots of great aspects, but I realized early on that it was not headed in the right direction. Actually, I was about to leave her, and had been thinking how I was going to tell her, when we broke up.

What is difficult is the questions that will forever be unaswered. So many inconsistencies, contradictions, lies, half-truths and secrets about her past, about the nature of our relationship and of her feelings for me. After two and a half years living together, I have no idea who she really was, and what she really wanted. All I know for sure are the 2 lines I wrote above.

> [@SuntanLotion](#):
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> Hm. 2 years, and sex dozens of times. That doesn’t sound like very often.

I use “dozens” for any unspecified number over 23 but below 200. Perhaps I should have said 16 dozens ? I guess that would have been in the ballpark. But oddly specific. And technically, it would still be “dozens” anyway.

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