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How to deal with your Relationship Breakup

Almost everyone knows someone these days who is going through a relationship breakup. The obvious question that is asked - at least rhetorically or sometimes overtly - is how you should advise someone in terms of how to cope with it. This is a vexing question and has many subsets and perspectives. The word ‘deal’ is used in our title because it place neutrality on the question; ‘cope’ tends to suggest that one is an inactive player, more simply a passive victim.

The alternative, becoming active player in the situation, suggests you are attempting to save the relationship - if it is only damaged but not dead - or are trying to understand, at least, its effects. If you are the one in the crucible - with a damaged or dying/dead relationship - you are likely just searching for understanding. How it happened; what can be done to prevent yourself or your mate from being devastated; analyzing the probability of recovery of the relationship - these are typical perspectives. Finally, breakup carries a ‘past tense’ connotation, suggesting that it is already over and the best that could be hoped for is some sort of after-the-fact reconciliation.

If your duet is under stress or worse, consider now exactly where it is and what you truly wish for. Oftentimes people assume that a relationship is over but that can be premature. This is especially true if hurt feelings drove one of the partner to shout “I hate you!”, which does carry a note of finality with it. Most of the time, however, anything emotional should be discounted as simply an outcry of emotion, not a true indicator of real status.

If you are a principal in a relationship that is damaged but is not dead and you wish to keep it alive then time may not be on your side. Therefore, you should arm yourself with as much quickly-acquired information as possible and move forward with some sort of plan to put the brakes on a breakup and try and reverse it. That is the subject of another article; not this one.

If your duet is deceased and buried then you should be about getting on with the rest of your life. This simply means understanding whether the breakup was for the best or was it a tragedy of biblical proportions. After that you should indeed take steps to get on with your life. There are many books and tapes dealing with the after affects of a relationship breakup. Get your hands on several of these and get up to speed on current thinking on the topic. We recommend leaving what is acknowledged as history to history. Restart your life and throw yourself into it, including work, play, or both. Try a new hobby. If you are the gregarious type get back in the game and invite someone to lunch.

No matter what, have a serious conversation with yourself and identify what you learned - or should have - about yourself and your involvement in relationships.

If you are trying to get ex back or plan to win your ex back you should start with strong advice from an expert. Making sure that you start with good information before trying to get your ex back will certainly enhance your chances.
By : James Roberts    Five stars rating
Submitted 2010-10-09 10:26:50

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