Getting Over A Relationship With Your Dignity
Intact
Breaking a meaningful relationship is traumatic, something similar
to death. You mourn the loss of a relationship. You miss your soul
mate. You feel tremendous grief and also feel let down. You feel anger
and resentment towards the world and ask why me?
These symptoms mark the mourning period of your relationship and so
don’t lose heart.
Here are some helpful guidelines in getting over a relationship.
In life we always make certain choices and we have to live with
them. Whether for good or worse we learn from these experiences as
experience is the greatest teacher in life.
So during the mourning period it is okay to feel sad. After all the
person whom you shared all your moments has left you. So cry as much
as you want. Just remember not to take up any new work or project
during this phase.
Just concentrate on letting your grief out and take care of
yourself. That means eat healthy foods and fill up your fridge with
healthy goodies so that your hands do not reach out for the high sugar
foods.
The next important thing to do is to write down all your feelings
on paper. You could maintain a dairy. If you have a friend, then
unburden all your feelings on to him and get a good cry.
Now after you have made a clean breast of everything now it is time
to analyze what went wrong. What were your mistakes and how you could
improve? Look at the situation practically and come up with your areas
of improvement. Tough to do it, I know. But just remember you need to
clean up the past from your mind and heart.
After all this is done, set a date for yourself when you can come
out of the mourning phase. On this date just buy yourself something,
like a new dress or a bunch of roses. You can even buy the new scent
which you have been hankering after.
Believe me you will feel much better.
Now take up some new activity. It could be a new hobby or read some
interesting books or go see a new movie. Get busy and productive. Let
the mind not dwell too much in the past.
After everything is said and done and you are finally out of the
depression, keep your distance with your ex.
You may have parted as friends but you will definitely require time
to adjust. So do not keep calling him or sending messages. Hold on to
your dignity.
Lastly to summarize the whole love breakup in Plato’s words, Love:
a grave mental disease.
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