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How To Heal After A Breakup
People breakup with their significant others in different ways. Sometimes it is mutual. Sometimes one person wants to end it, but the other person doesn’t. Sometimes there’s drama involved. Sometimes emotions take over and make a person do crazy things to get attention from their ex. The feeling of not being wanted anymore can send our ego spinning.
People want that feeling of being wanted and feeling special, but when the other person no longer desires you, you can be left very confused. You can end up feeling depressed as well as embarrassed that you opened yourself up to someone that you thought that you were going to be with forever.
In perhaps not having all of the answers of why someone wants to leave you behind and move on, you may dwell on the “what if”s of the situation. What if I treated this person this way? What if I did this? What if I did that? Your mind may go to trying to fix a problem that will never be “solved.”
Causes for breakups can be many. Someone may just need a break to do some “soul searching,” which would also be known as finding their authentic self. Someone may feel pressured to react and respond in the relationship in ways that do not feel good to him or her, which doesn’t necessarily mean that the other person is bad. If you really love someone, you allow that person to go if the desire is there to do so. True…