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How Past Relationships Are Turning Us Into Dating Psychopaths

When healing is ignored, love becomes a game, and the players forget they’re dealing with real human hearts.

Shaant
5 min readFeb 13, 2025
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Did you ever get the impression that dating is like walking through a minefield with each interaction considered a landmine just waiting to explode with mind games, ghosting, or a sheer lack of sincerity? Let me tell you, you are not the only one.

The dating scene has become a minefield for emotionally unavailable beings with a psychopathic way of seeking love or avoiding it. This is not finger-pointing but rather addressing toxic patterns that hamper the formation of healthy connections.

Now let’s get in depth here and see if we can find our way back to real relationships, shall we?

Oh Great, Now We All Pretend Not to Care

We have all known what was to be hurt. It is a common experience: the pangs of heartache.

Building a wall, a guard, is an entity-based tactic when all hope seems lost. But when do we arrive at the kind of decision-making where acting disinterested, mind games, and silent treatments were used to build a new, glittery normal?

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Shaant
Shaant

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