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"Is it me, or does it feel like everyone is breaking up lately? First Pippa Middleton and Alex Loudon, then Zoe Saldana and Keith Britton, and now Heather Locklear and Jack Wagner&amp;#8212;and that&amp;#39;s only in the last five days! A few of you sharp ladies said that the breakup between Zoe and Keith was likely a gradual one. That got me thinking: long-term relationships can be friggin&amp;#39; hard to leave!\nPinterestFacebookI spent a good, long year in my last relationship grappling with whether I should break up with my live-in boyfriend. I wasn&amp;#39;t happy, but I didn&amp;#39;t know if it had to do with me (like was something inherently wrong with me?), or if our relationship had reached its expiration date. This was made harder by the fact that he was kind, earnest, a great cook, and looked exactly like Logan Marshall-Green from The O.C. Does anyone know if he&amp;#39;s still dating Marisa Tomei?\u2026 I digress.\nNo matter how bad I felt, I wasn&amp;#39;t ready to face singledom. I was terrified that I&amp;#39;d look back and think I&amp;#39;d made some horrible mistake that couldn&amp;#39;t be undone. But the truth is that we were comfortable together&amp;#8212;attached, even&amp;#8212;and we had put three years of our life into making it work. In the end, we couldn&amp;#39;t force it. It took many months, many fights, and him moving out while we continued to date (I&amp;#39;ll spare you the epically-boring details) until finally, one devastating moment severed our connection completely.\nOne year later, I can&amp;#39;t believe how long I stuck it out. Not that I have any regrets. Actually, I&amp;#39;m lying. I do have regrets. But ya&amp;#39;ll and I just met and I don&amp;#39;t want to scare you off just yet.\nHave you ever stayed in a relationship too long? If so, what kept you there? Did you regret it later or chalk it up to lessons learned?\nMore dating stories:\n*Moving In With My Boyfriend: The Good, the Bad, and the WTF\n*Getting to Know You: Let&amp;#39;s Talk About Your First Time\n*[My Wildest Sexual Experience: We Had Super Hot Hotel Sex\n](http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/blogs/smitten/2011/11/my-wildest-sexual-experience-w-14.html)\nPhoto: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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