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Patient keeps returning to a partner they have already rejected, twice, for documented reasons. Each return is described as 'different this time.' It is not.
The damage is known and preferred.
None. New partners feel unfamiliar.
Patients with Chronic Backslide-Romance Condition typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Backslide-Romance Condition belongs to the Institute's growing taxonomy of behaviors that real medicine has declined to name. It exists, roughly, at the intersection of internet culture, interpersonal friction, and whatever is happening in the lives of our patients. It is fictional and it is everywhere.
Under its Latin label Retrogressus amorus familiaris, the condition appears only in the Institute's own catalog. Real clinicians do not recognize the term. They recognize the behavior.
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