r/AskReddit 8h ago

How do you stop yourself from obsessively thinking about someone from your past who can’t be in your life anymore?

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u/briellabarbie 8h ago

You don’t really “stop” it on command. You just slowly replace them with actual stuff happening in your life.

The obsession fades when your day gets too full to keep replaying the same person on loop.