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Prior to your relationship breakup, the world was your oyster! Everything was perfectly blissful and the romance between you and your boyfriend or girlfriend was what dreams were made of…Suddenly, all that has changed! Your relationship has broken up and your once ideal situation has become bleak and depressing.

A relationship breakup can be a horrible experience. It’s like losing someone through tragic circumstances and, naturally, we go through a period of grieving. The most important thing to remember is that this is a normal reaction.

When a relationship ends, you have a loss. The loss of a person from your life, someone you’ve spent lots of time with and shared many intimate moments. This person now feels gone and it’s common to believe that you’ll never have or, sometimes, even want to get romantically involved with another person again. Breaking up can simply feel like the end of the world!

But it’s not! Overcoming relationship breakup is possible. You need to put your ex boyfriend or girlfriend and the time you had together in the proper perspective so you can move on. Taking action to get over your break up isn’t easy to do, but it’s vitally important that you start the healing process as soon as you can.

There’s heaps of relationship information online, as well as offline, on how to deal with relationship breakups. You’ll find advice and “theories” on how to get your life back together and ways to cope with being single again. Just be wary of the type of relationship you listen to, know which approach is best for you, no matter what anyone says. Don’t try something that worked for someone else if it doesn’t feel right.

Emotional Stages Of A Relationship Breakup.

As was mentioned earlier, whenever you lose someone close to you, whether it’s through death or any type of relationship ending, you go through similar emotional stages of grief. Relationship breakup is no exception.

The following 7 stages of dealing with breakups might help you figure out which stage you’re at. Also, you need to realize that not everyone experiences the same emotions and feelings and not everyone will go through every stage in the order that’s laid out here. And, also keep in mind, the degree of emotion will vary from situation to situation.

1. Denial is the first stage of loss after anything difficult like the end of a relationship. This can’t be happening!

2. Next, pain and guilt set in after the shock and denial start to fade.

3. Anger comes next, as does something called bargaining. If I do this or don’t do that, maybe we can get back together. I’ll never look at another man or woman as long as I live, if only . . . .

4. Depression and loneliness set in once it’s clear that bargaining won’t change the painful truth.

5. The next step is the lessening of depression when things start to seem a little better.

6. Then comes the hard part of working through it and getting past it.

7. The last stage of grief after a relationship breakup or any loss is acceptance, and hope for a better future.

Now remember, this is only a guide. For example, you may never start the ‘bargaining stage‘, especially if you know your relationship is really and truly over. But most people’s grief process will follow this similar, general pattern.

It’s important to understand and appreciate that there is a final stage. Regardless of the time it takes for you to reach this stage, realize that it means you’ve overcome the relationship breakup and you’re getting on with your life.

Try to put your relationship breakup into perspective with all the other important things that have happened, and will take place in your life. Remember, you’ll eventually get to the acceptance stage if you give yourself time.

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