Checking your ex’s profile is paying admission to a show that hurts. Skip the ticket.

Looking gives you a few seconds of information and an afternoon of comparison, and it reliably undoes whatever had settled since the last time. The urge is not weakness; curiosity about somebody you loved is natural. The cost simply arrives after the click rather than before it. Nothing you find there tends to help.

Mute or unfollow instead of relying on restraint at midnight, and be gentle with yourself about having looked. If you want it back later, it will all still be there.