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I would love to make this relationship work, especially after my last one didn't.

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Question - (20 January 2010) 1 Answers - (Newest, 20 January 2010)
A female United States age 30-35, anonymous writes:

If you got into a relationship about 1 month after your break up with an ex... you've been in a new one for about 3/4 months... and your committed to making it work JUST BECAUSE your old one didn't and you want this new relationship to be perfect. But your new partner is younger than you (only 17) My guess is that you want to make it work so much subconciously because your old one didnt but you dont really know that yet.

So are you essentially still basing your new relationship off of your old one? What is this called anyone know? And are you bound to get extremely hurt because of your willingness to make it work but the other partner might not feel that way or you might end up dissapointed because things arent what you thought they would be? Does this generally happen?

Especially if your "new" partner is younger and inexperienced.. is it more likely THEY get extremely hurt because you may realize you want an ex back or are YOU more likely to get hurt because you wont give it up for anything JUST BECAUSE your previous one failed?

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A male reader, empty-1 United States +, writes (20 January 2010):

This is called rebounding. The relationship is called a rebound relationship. Painful as this fact may be, they have a very low incidence of success, long term.

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