Chris Evans and Jenny Slate broke up again — and it proves why you should never get back together with your ex

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• Chris Evans and Jenny Slate have broken up again, according to the New York Times . 
• Evans and Slate had an on-again, off-again relationship that the internet loved.
• INSIDER spoke with relationship experts to find out why getting back together with an ex is almost always a bad idea.

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Once again, Chris Evans and Jenny Slate have broken up, according to a recent New York Times profile of Evans.

The profile doesn't go into too much detail as to what caused the breakup. In fact, it is only mentioned at all because Evans refers to a feminist text, "The Mother of All Questions" by Rebecca Solnit, that he read while dating Slate. But anyone who has ever experienced any sort of on-again-off-again relationships like Evans and Slate's likely has some inkling as to what happened. After all, getting back with an ex rarely, if ever, works out quite the way you'd like it to. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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