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A Recipe for Overcoming Heartbreak

Source: LessWrong ·

For much of our evolutionary history, humans lived in tribes consisting of the same ~ 150 people . Historically, we only ever felt the emotion of grief when someone died. We can no longer talk to them, and so we grieve their loss in our lives. But in modern life, a previous romantic partner may not be dead, and instead just lives a few miles down the road. This is unnatural, evolutionarily speaking, but so are many things in modern life: we just have to adapt. According to the science of attachment theory (a scientifically grounded framework within psychology which helps explain interpersonal

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