Dealing with a breakup is never easy and it doesn’t help that there seems to be a timeline for getting over someone. No matter the amount of time you were with your significant other, breakups are always hard. How long should it take you to really be over someone?
How Can You Get Over It?
We suggest unfollowing your ex on all forms of social media and deleting his contact information. There’s no need for you to have to see a daily reminder of what you used to have. It’s also not healthy to constantly be thinking about what you were and your future together. There’s a reason you broke up.
“The hardest part of getting over a relationship is often not the loss of the actual person, but the loss of the fantasy of what you thought could happen,” said marriage and relationship specialist Julianna Morris.
With all this free time you now have, you can try new things that you wouldn’t have thought of trying before. You’ll have time to take a new exercise class, spend girl’s nights with your bestie, or taking up a new hobby; the possibilities are endless.
How Long Should it Take?
There’s really no set timeline it should take to get over someone as it depends on a lot of different factors, like how entangled you were with the person and did you live together? Don’t fret if it’s been a week since the breakup and you haven’t gotten around to updating your dating profile or changing your relationship status on facebook.
