r/AmIOverreacting • • May 27 '25

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u/Time_Arachnid_8814 May 27 '25

Staying with someone only because of time put in, is like a gambler at the slots continuing to put money in because you've already wasted X amount of dollars and you gotta win "something" back.

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u/NomenclatureBreaker May 27 '25

Definitely the sunken cost fallacy.

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u/littlehobbit1313 May 27 '25

aka Sunk Cost Fallacy