When people leave us, and break our hearts, or when we force ourselves to leave those we cared about, our minds become over confluent with anger and confusion. All we can focus on is how much we hate our exes, and how much we just want to get as far away from them as possible and move on. So, we try, and we do, with the most common way being “finding a rebound”, latching onto said rebound, and deceiving ourselves into believing that we are actually in love with said rebound, when, more likely than not, we are only confusing love with the strong desire to forget. Some of us tell ourselves that we can completely separate anger from love. Some of us can even convince our rebounds that we are not confused. When people leave serious long-term relationships, where they had so much love and care for their exes, and immediately tries to jump back into the dating market without even waiting a week, they are looking for a distraction. When people swear on their lives that they are completely over their exes and rushes to start something new with strangers, they are looking for a way out. When people say “I love you” within a month of dating, they are looking for a replacement. How long can we live in denial before we realize that we forgot to slow down and work on our pain before jumping into new potential pain? How long before it takes us to realize that we no longer “love” the people we are with because we never loved them in the first place? How long before we stop distracting who we are and what we want from ourselves with what we want from others? How long before we can reach the stage where we no longer rely on people to make us happy?