Meeting an ex’s new partner is read as comparison and the question of being replaced. Tradition takes it as a sign of something you are still measuring yourself against, not of the past returning. Liking the new partner in the dream is read as acceptance and real distance from the old bond. Feeling jealous or hostile is taken as insecurity about your worth, often stirred by something present rather than old. If the new partner looks like you, dream books read it as recognising a pattern your ex repeats — or one you repeat yourself. It can help to notice where in waking life you feel compared, and by whom.
Does the traditional reading fit your dream, or did it mean something else to you?
My Cosmic Code has a private dream journal. Write a dream down and the app picks out the symbols in it, shows what dream books say about them and, over time, which words recur across your entries. The journal is stored on your device only.