Title: Surviving a Break-Up: How to be Happy Being Single
General Purpose: To inform.
Specific Purpose: To tell about surviving a tough break-up, and how to rediscover yourself and find happiness in a newly single life.
Thesis Statement: The aftermath of a relationship break-up can allow time for self-discovery, friendship, and a chance to do things you want to do. . Introduction
. To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
. Going through a break-up can be a really stressful and emotional experience; how do you move on and find happiness in a newly single life?
. The reason I am up here talking about this topic today, is that about a month ago, I ended what was a 2 ½ year relationship.
. It has
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. It is important to balance out spending time alone, because too much time alone may lead to feelings of resentment and longing for the relationship.
. Friends may have felt they were put on the backburner during your relationship, and will be happy to have you back to spend time with you again.
. To quote Judy Ford, “A relationship with a friend is a special place. It is a sheltered environment in which we can endlessly explore ourselves in the presence of another and in which we can offer the possibility of the true reflection of another. And still we are one person.”
. It may be possible to fear being independent, for that may leave one to feel loneliness and unloved. However, if a person becomes independent, they can truly do the things they want to do.
. Do the Things You Want to Do
. Ever been in a relationship where you either are forced to watch sports, or on the other end, a chick flick? Well, now you have the freedom to watch whatever it is YOU want to watch.
. Right when you find yourself single, go ahead and make plans of things you never could do before.
1. Travel, skydive, go on a road trip
. According to a California State study, this is the time to start a new project, develop a hobby; do things that will boost your mood and help you move on.
. Doing the things you want to do means
Having a break up seems to be a greater loss for males than females, because females experience intimacy with same-sex friends, and males usually do not. The article states that young men may be more vulnerable to the ups and downs of romance because in many cases it’s their
Whether you eat a whole tub of chocolate ice cream while crying or you party like a rock star all weekend while drinking, a break up is a break up. If you’re the person who eats a whole tub of chocolate ice cream, you probably accompanied it with romantic movies. Although they are comforting for the time being, they always leave you to wonder, why didn’t my break up didn’t have a happy ending like the ones in the movies? In Peyton Reed’s 2006 romantic comedy, The Break-Up, it portrays the realistic events and feelings of a failed relationship. In comparison to other romantic comedies, this film seems to stand out because it teaches the audience the lesson that not all break ups leads to make ups.
* Close relationships can be formed between good friends, the closer the relationship becomes the more thoughts, feelings and hopes are shared
Relationships with a significant other can turn into something that is life-long, or can turn into something brief and can lead to a lot of hurt feelings. Breakups are already hard to go through and sometimes people do not know how to deal with it. There are certain factors that can go into a relationship that are indicators of the failure of the relationship. Past relationships can also be an indicator on whether or not the post relationship dissolution will be positive or negative. Stress is another factor that can make getting over relationships much harder, this is seen especially in young adults. Coping mechanisms to learn can lead to a faster recovery of a person’s mental state and allow someone to become more positive and make new romantic relationships. Relationship dissolution can happen to any couple, early recognition of problems can show if the relationship will be successful or fail. Stress from breakups is also common and knowing ways to deal with it can make it easier to go through. Ways to cope can positively increase a person’s well-being and instead of letting the relationship get to your head, it can make it easier to overcome.
I, myself, just got out of an eight month relationship with somebody, and I learned
Everyone who loves eventually go through it. Whether somebody you loved broke up with you or somebody you loved died. A heartbreak can truly “76 percent of people say that being lovesick after a breakup is understated and that it can lead to major emotional and physical problems (Gueren).” “But rejection also sends blood flow to two other areas: the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior insula, both involved in producing physical pain. That's why you may feel achy all over, not just in your heart (Beil).” Not loving someone will prevent you from receiving a heartache will which will allow you to stay healthier instead of getting your heart broken and risking your health and being a debbie-downer. Instead, people should just treat themselves to chipotle or ice cream. Yes, it’s not that great for your health as well but at least you’re happy as you eat it instead of being all mopey and just feeling all broken with no sight of what’s going on with your
I hope it will be of great use to you as you start your journey to freedom. Let me say again, I felt all the same things you may be feeling, I have suffered through all of the pain and anguish of a terrible broken heart. I want nothing more than to assure you that you are only one of many and you can make it through this, but make no mistake it can be a difficult road at times. One of the hardest parts about losing a relationship are the thoughts that the pain will never go away. But just remember that it does take time and it may not get better overnight, but little by little you will begin to put the pieces back together again. Every cut in our life leaves a mark, but it is up to us to decide whether to live in the past or to move on to new and better relationships. One of the things I would encourage for our readers is, once you do move on make sure to learn something from it, don’t go through a painful situation and take nothing out of it. Try not to keep repeating the same bad relationship over and over, use it as an opportunity to change something about yourself. Look for something positive to take into the next relationship when that happens for you again. Addicted to love? Yes, but it is not the first one I have had to
If someone was to spend their time around people who have just experienced a breakup, they are unlikely to have the same experience with each person. They could find that although one person is in a bad way, another could come across though they haven't been affected.
Breakups are hard, to say the least. It’s a similar idea to being addicted to some sort of drug and going through withdraw. Well, that would be in the most extreme of cases, anyways. Many people deal with breakups in different ways. What is generally expected would be a lot of crying and maybe some anger mixed in. Some people are calm about it, to the point of it showing no effect to them. Usually, I would see myself being the calm person, yet I find myself in my ex’s closet, looking out on an empty room in an attempt to see whatever he could be doing.
“How could you mess up so badly?” you repeatedly ask yourself thousands upon thousands of times. Staring at the ceiling in your bed you’re nearly motionless as you’re consumed with all of the thoughts racing through your mind. This goes on weeks, you feel incapacitated and frozen, but the world doesn’t stop with you. Everyday is a constant battle to get up and fulfill your responsibilities, despite your current state of affairs you manage to keep going. “Marin” you say to yourself “You can keep on going.” Eventually the negative feelings subside and you feel like yourself once more. Without even noticing it you’re back to hanging out with your friends regularly and it’s almost as if that heartbreak never occurred. Then the cycle continues, you meet another person and the same thing happens. Though you get stronger after each failure, your hope to find love does not cease. Maybe I’ll run into him today you say to yourself, no maybe not. One seemingly normal day you bump into him by accident. Locking your eyes you both say sorry at the same time and laugh a little. “I’m so sorry” you say with a little laughter seeping out
It is December 03, 2005 and a typical Saturday morning where I was awakened by a restless night of sleep. I sat up in the bed, grabbed the remote to turn on the television, and then scanned my surroundings only to discover that I had become very familiar with the 4 walls of the room. You see, I was in a relationship (or so I thought) where I can honestly confess that I was not only lonely but I was also alone. I was in a relationship with a live in boyfriend whom rarely surfaced, well at least not when I was at home; his belongings where at my place, but very seldom was his presence made known. My thoughts concerning this so-called relationship begin to overwhelm me so I shifted gears and headed to the bathroom where I brushed my teeth and washed my face before being led by hunger to the kitchen where I prepared a bowl of cereal, slice of toast, and a glass of orange juice.
Just because you got off the horse doesn’t mean you need to get back up after the break up. Since both of you took time apart it helps with the healing process. Don’t try to start dating quickly, remember “if it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be”. Now that you’re single you should change things like a new look or set new goals and be happy. Don’t be stuck in the past
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the reality of how painful a break up can be due to the studies that verify the impact of a breakup on a person for the society to understand and sympathies with the victim of the breakup and for the victim of the breakup, to understand why breakups hurt so much and create that much pain making the victim go through a traumatizing event and not understand what’s happening . Breakups are often discussed in a way that suggests that they have little to no effect on personal well-being and it’s just something a person needs to get over when in reality the breakup is one of hardest events a person can go through especially if the relationship was a serious romantic one that lasted for a long time
It 's apparent that not every relationship stands the test of time. In hindsight, it is much easier to see why the relationship needed to end, but during the heat of the moment, emotions make it almost impossible to get out of it, even if you are not happy.
l over again - Begin with a fresh start. Remember when you first met and everything was great? Each of you seemed to know what to do. The relationship was everything you wanted, right? Become re-acquainted. Get to know each other all over again. Begin by wooing each other like you did back then. Think a minute on those special moments. Think about those moments again.