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Partner's ex has, somehow, attended three group dinners, one wedding, and remains in the daily-story ecosystem. Is described as 'honestly just a friend now.'
The ex is a permanent fixture.
None. Asking produces a defensive explanation.
Patients with Chronic Ex-in-the-Background Disorder typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Ex-in-the-Background 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 Umbra amoris previa permanens — fictional nomenclature for a non-fictional pattern.
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