Moving on seems impossible at first. One may feel like they’ll never get over their relationship. This blog post is for everyone out there who doesn’t think they’ll move on. I assure you, that’s part of the process.
It’ll take time, probably longer than you might think. I’m talking about being fully cleansed of all hang-ups and scars from the incident, not just moving on on a surface level.
At this stage, you might be lost and out of happiness. I’ve some really good tips for true and everlasting happiness but in this blog post, we’ll stick to the topic of moving on.
Depending on how deep the emotional impact was, it might take several phases before you can move on. Here’re some tips — from my personal experience — to help you on this healing journey:
- Clear your baggage. Acknowledge, accept, and let go of your feelings: If the relationship was intense, your baggage will probably include hate, grief, anger, fear, shame, and other deeper emotions. Whatever the emotion is, open yourself to it fully. This means if you hate the person, feel that hatred within yourself. If you feel sad, feel sadness. Cry if needed. Take time out for yourself to exercise these feelings. Don’t block them. Embrace them and accept them. As you join with these emotions, gradually let them go. Feel them, understand the cause, then release them.
- Share with your close friend: You don’t have to go through this alone. Your friends are there to help you, support you, and yank you through this period.
- Reduce contact: The initial healing period of every wound is always the most subtle. During this time, you wouldn’t want anything to come near and disturb your wound. Because of that, it might help to decrease contact with this person at the start, if that’s what it’s going to take to move on faster. Dipping contact will make it easy for you to gain clarity on the situation. You’ll understand the layers of your relationship.
- Seek closure: This is significant else the broken relationship will become a lifetime wound. At the end of an unanswered or broken relationship, there’re going to be a lot of unspoken words, questions, and repressed emotions. Arrange for a heartfelt talk with that person and get your questions cleared. Ask for the opposite side of the story. Listen. Discuss it.
- Forgive and ask for forgiveness: It said that whenever we refuse to forgive someone, we aren’t forgiving ourselves. Think about how you’re refuting yourself of so much happiness by holding on to your objections. Think about how you’re preventing yourself from experiencing your real love because you’re still dangling on to this baggage. When you hold on to something, you block yourself from receiving new things in life. Forgive yourself for experiencing this trauma. Forgive yourself for everything that has happened. As you forgive yourself, the forgiveness of the other person will occur naturally.
- Get into some activities: What are the things that turn you up? Things that excite you, stimulate you, make you feel rejuvenated? Exercising? Jogging? Swimming? Cycling? Traveling? Going out with friends? Movies? Reading a book? Engage yourself in them.
- Make social connections: Meet new people. Meeting new people, friends, or romantic potentials alike, reminds how there’s a whole world out there. There’re many great people to know out there and learn from their perspective. Someone might benefit from your story, help them and the kindness come back to you in multiples.
- Understand that it’s normal to have a break-up: Life is a series of experiments and adventures. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. There’s no formula for life. there’s no agreement that life will be smooth and as per your need. People come and people go — that’s life. Some people just come in your life to teach you to let go.
- Recognize there’s someone out there for you: You aren’t the only single out there in the world. Look around you. There’re more than 8 billion people in the world. There’s someone out there for you. Just because you’re single now doesn’t mean you’ll remain forever single. And being single isn’t bad at all.
We need relationships with others to see ourselves more clearly. Every relationship we’ve got reflects us what we’re putting out into the world.
Know that a relationship isn’t a failure just because it ended. If you grew as a person and learned something to move your life forward, then it served a purpose and was truly a success.