Sucks that my uBPD/NPD ex gf of 3 years lives on my block! I told myself to not walk by her house today when I took the dog out. Well, I didn't follow my gut and I saw the roses on her doorstep. I shouldn't be surprised. She had a replacement within a couple weeks of the b/u. She has to keep her supply going! Hey, I cut the cord and need to phucking move on in my heart and mind! Maybe it was good for me to see to finally nail the damn door shut! It is what it is... .
Ouch it sucks. My ex I learned later moved in with the guy she had cultivated for the year and half BEFORE the break up. She lives 100 miles away, but moved in one mile away. After learning that about a year later, I had to stick myself with rusty knife quite a few times by driving by and seeing if her car was there for the weekends. I was even driving by her mom's house (par 5 away) looking for her vehicle.
Honestly sticking myself with a real knife would have been less painful and more productive. Oh the pain of the Disorder, which just brought out all the worse in what was already there

Not proud of my actions. But it helped to know a bit more info. So, yes, in some ways for you it can be blessing. It helps to bring final closure and helps to destroy malignant hope. Limerence is the vacillation between hope and uncertainty that can keep a partner locked in the disorder for a lifetime.
The only way out of the Limerence is for the hope to be extinguished. Mentally knowing that it's there, Limerence, doesn't really help. It is a feeling that we have no control over at the moment.
To move past the Limerence requires the true squashing, exterminating, destroying, stomping, purging, eradication, annihilation, obliteration, erasing, eradication... . of malignant hope/uncertainty. It is only when we have killed the hope and depersonalize, that the Limerence ends and this will help us move forward in our recovery.
It takes time. We are human. It's in our nature to remember and hold on. It's a constructive attribute for the most part. But my inability to let go here is for me is a weakness.
You are not alone. Thanks for sharing. Go to know it's not just me
