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Mixed Feelings Can Be Worse Than Bad Ones - The Atlantic

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Feeling conflicted can be even more distressing than feeling bad. Here’s how to manage it.

“Ō dī et amō,” the Roman poet Catullus wrote of his lover Lesbia about 2,000 years ago. “I hate and I love . Why I do this, perhaps you ask. I know not, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.” Maybe you can relate. If you’ve ever had mixed feelings about someone you love, you know the intense discomfort that results. If your feelings were purely positive, of course, the relationship would be bliss. Even purely negative feelings would be better, because the course of action would be clear: Say goodbye. But mixed feelings leave you confused about the right thing to do. Romance isn’t the only

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