Being familiar or comfortable with someone are two different things — and too much of one in a relationship can be a red flag

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• Feeling familiar with someone might not always be a good thing.
• Sometimes, we might be psychologically trying to resolve issues from our past with new people.
• In these cases, we may subconsciously seek out abusive people.
  
• Being comfortable with someone is different — you are able to be yourself without fearing repercussions for your views, opinions, or feelings.

Have you ever met a complete stranger, only to feel like you’ve known them for years? This happens sometimes, a bit like a personification of déjà vu, where you meet someone new but the conversation flows so easily it’s as if you already know each other.

This familiarity may happen on a first date, where you start talking and you feel like it isn’t the first date at all.

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