I’ve found I can no longer enjoy things I used to because of association with an ex. The last person I dated loved facebook, anime, and certain songs… now they remind me of them, and I instantly become agitated. Even if I liked certain things before they came along it doesn’t matter.
Anyone else experience this?
I did for a time experience this after one of my partners and I broke it off. She had spent an inordinate amount of time being abusive and putting me down for practically every little thing, to the point where I had felt ashamed of enjoying certain things when I was with her, so had stopped doing them. It took me about a year after the relationship was over to work through all that trash and realize that my habits were totally fine, but she was not.