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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Love

n.Joy at a partner's happiness with someone else.

Coined within polyamorous communitiesInternet or community term

The Third Cup

The first time, Priya was sick.

Not metaphorically. She spent the Saturday evening on the bathroom floor with her back against the bath, doing the breathing her therapist had taught her for something else entirely, while Marcus was at dinner with a woman called Ines whom Priya had met twice and liked.

That was the part nobody warned her about — the liking. It would have been easier if Ines had been awful.

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