Major breakups, like divorce or the end of an engagement, knock you down in just about every way imaginable. Along with losing your relationship, you lose your lifestyle, the goal of raising your children in an intact family, and all the other dreams you had for the future. Each loss feels like another blow that takes you lower and lower into the depths of your broken heart. Although you know there are plenty of people who have made it through and are moving on with their life after divorce just fine, you wonder what they knew about how to get over someone that you don’t. And then you think maybe your breakup is so much more horrible than what others have gone through, that what they did won’t work for you. And so your torturous thoughts turn as you wrestle with worries about how to deal with your breakup. The problem is that the more you worry about it, the harder it is for you to recover which just starts the cycle all over again. It’s a vicious cycle that keeps you stuck. Bu
I told the man I loved I couldn't be his part-time girlfriend anymore, and we broke up. Now, we're married. Stay true to yourself. You just might get what you really want, not what you're settling for.