Saw your ex.
You poor thing !
Just act like you don't know them or even see them.
Now they have someone new to mess with.
Damn right your happy. Enjoy it !!
New person in their life not so much I bet.
Woo Hoo for you :)

really took me to a a deeper realization of my own hurting life-patterns via a more accurate inside look of the my own childhood trauma responses.

the good times roll.

I don’t believe in ghosts.

the blanks?
Another dimension?

They really do. Glad you are staying sorta positive. It seems the constant wonder of “what they are doing” or “who” is the worst.

It’s pretty normal to have a “type”. Being attracted to certain physical attributes isn’t unusual and it doesn’t mean that they’ve just replaced you. Two people can share similar physical characteristics and still be completely different people. I’ve got ex’s that somewhat resembled each other physically, but were totally different in terms of personality.

Those types of patterns equal red flags. Attachments to the past aren't healthy. If I were dating someone and saw that I resembled their ex it would be over. You calling their partner a "new distraction" is also a red flag. They see their partners as toys? Yikes. That has all the markings of a bad ending.

Closets full of engineers in unhappy marriages

To ever have even a single real, natural, candid relationship with another human being in your entire life, at all, ever, whatsoever.

In my case, that has omnidirectionally been forcefully and premeditatively deliberately prevented, for its entire ~32 years, and counting. By the orchestrators and all actors in relational distance -- every single person.

To call it neverendingly agonizing and actually physically cancer-inflicting is an incredible understatement.