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How to Tell If You Have a Broken Heart After a Break Up

A break up can leave you feeling like only half the person you were in your relationship, with no memory of how you were beforehand. Many people want to start dating after a break up to help heal their broken heart, but find that they just can’t manage to stop crying.

Movies and popular songs have trivialized a broken heart, but the fact of the matter is that a broken heart can be more painful and feel more life threatening than open heart surgery. No, a broken heart may not be able to kill you, but the symptoms can certainly make you feel like you want to curl up and die.

When suffering from a broken heart, it is not uncommon to experience drastic urges such as the craving to call your ex every waking minute of the day or to binge eat to take your mind off of the sadness you feel. These feelings are perfectly normal and something that just about every serious relationship goes through at its end, and will begin to subside as time goes on.

While you have a broken heart, make sure to avoid common mistakes that people tend to make, such as plotting how to get revenge on your ex girlfriend or boyfriend. Instead, set positive goals for yourself, such as picking up new hobbies or exercising more often. The good memories will slowly begin to overwrite the bad memories.

Try and remember things that you used to do that made you happy on your own. You don’t have to completely forget about your ex and shut them out of your life altogether; that would just be unrealistic. You can’t automatically forget, but you can shift your focus.

People get over their break up pain and their broken hearts in all sorts of different ways. Not everyone stays broken up forever, either; some people go for the “rebound relationship” and make up and break up over and over again, while others live happily ever after with or without their ex. No matter what happens, though, happiness will find a way to shine through the darkness and heal your broken heart.

Doesn’t having a broken heart hurt? Here are a few techniques to make your ex miss you: Make Ex Miss You