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Eliot Spitzer’s In the Arena was cancelled on CNN last week. Chris Rovzar at Daily Intel sums up why we begin to feel bad for him. I’d always thought it was just time and the elements, but the ex-boyfriend (girlfriend) theory makes sense.

Our relationships with the people we vote for are by necessity romances, about which I subscribe to a theory: It’s impossible to be friends with your most recent ex. In order to feel comfortable around a person with whom you’ve shared a relationship, you need to put a new ­relationship between you and the old flame. This is why, for example, a groom’s last girlfriend is rarely invited to the wedding, but a childhood or college love might get to give a toast at the rehearsal dinner.

(Source: New York Magazine)