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Why You're Still Looking At Your Ex's Instagram (Even Though You're 40 And Broke Up At 16)

Thana Faroq/Moment/Getty ImagesDespite being a grown woman with children and a fully developed frontal lobe, every month or so it happens. I’m just going about my life — picking kids up from school, begging everyone to eat their dinner, crying in the shower from overstimulation — when I start thinking about my ex. You know the one. (And yeah, you have one.) The one your mind always goes back to even though you dated when you were 16 and are now old enough to get genuinely excited about a new vacuum.I’ll pull up his socials, getting glimpses of the man my junior prom date became, wondering how...