On Chloe's checklist, tasks follow one another and accumulate.
Some of them are embellished with a small “
N.
” “N” for Nathan, the man with whom she has shared her life for three years.
It is May 2019 and he is looking for a job.
The 27-year-old helps her, but that's not all.
She writes CVs for him, submits applications herself.
It even happens to him to pay the fines which his partner cannot pay, for lack of means.
A role that the young woman assumes out of "love", but also to relieve a spouse who presents all the symptoms of depression.
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Relieve, heal, save.
Chloe knows this protocol all too well, she who is always attracted to partners who are doing badly.
A nurse in both professional and personal life, her behavior is characteristic of the eponymous syndrome, also called “
savior
” syndrome or “
child savior
”
syndrome
, in psychological jargon.
Magnetized by the distress of the other, the "savior"
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