Most of our love lives will, at some point within them, be the locus of a good deal of disappointment. There are few other aspects of ourselves that deal so specifically with expectations. That is really what sex, dating and relationships are: a place to put our hopes and visions for the future. Heartbreak, by extension, can really just be viewed as the failure of these expectations. When a relationship fails, it isn’t just the loss of the person themselves that we mourn, but the loss of what we imagined was yet to come.
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