Have You Ever Wished for Someone's Death? (there is a positive psychology here!)

The guilt is a symptom that despite the inevitable and very real tensions

and disappointments of the relationship, we care about them very much.

Why We (Sometimes) Hope the People We Love Might Die

It feels very shameful – horrifying – to admit but there are times when we may find ourselves daydreaming about a terrible thing happening to someone close to us. Deep in the privacy of our minds, we may feel it would be a huge relief if a partner or family member could just vanish from the face of the earth. They might be run over at a crossing; their plane might go down; they could contract a rare and quickly fatal illness (it wouldn’t hurt at all)...

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