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Every new partner is silently measured against an ex the patient has not seen in 4 years. No one has ever measured up. The ex has also been measured against the patient's memory of them, and won.
Permanent. The ex has become a benchmark.
None. The memory is doing better work than the person ever did.
Patients with Chronic Comparison-Poison Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Comparison-Poison Disorder was added to the Institute catalog in response to a pattern our clinicians kept seeing. The pattern did not have a real name. This is the real name now. Everything about this entry is made up, except the behavior.
The Institute has assigned this condition the Latin binomial Comparatio toxica ex-amoris — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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