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love-hate relationship
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love-hate relationship
Ambivalence Psychiatry A clinical complex characterized by Freudian impulses; love-hate is normal for children passing through the 'anal-sadistic' phase of development, in which there is often simultaneous love and 'murderous' hatred toward the same object–person. Cf Passive-aggression.


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Right now, I have a love/hate relationship with it because I've heard it so many fucking times that I don't need to hear it for at least another five years.
``We have a love/hate relationship with Northridge .
Their tangles up truth itself, and resolving it may come at a steep price--for the life of the child born of their love/hate relationship lingers in the balance.
 
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