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Welcome to today’s psychological survey.
We are here to discover your attitude toward your exes. Yes, we know you have more than one. We’ve heard the number is in the double digits, actually.
So: Do you keep the texts you exchanged? Are you still Facebook friends? If you’re not, do you creep around social media to see what they’re doing and whom they’re seeing?
Do you occasionally sit there late at night with your new (and perhaps temporary) lover, secretly pleased that your ex just texted you, wondering how you are?
I am asking because I’ve just read (twice) a quite stunning and revelatory piece by Maureen O’Connor in New York Magazine.
In it, she explains that times have changed, that relationships are not quite what they used to be, and that the way people now look at their exes has been altered — literally.
Technology, you see, has made the things we have done in the past and the people we’ve shared those experiences with far less forgettable — even when we thought they were forgettable at the time.
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