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How to Get Over a Sudden Breakup in a Long-Term Relationship

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So you’ve been dumped. Fucking sucks, right? Chances are you’ve spent the last 400 hours or so crying, mainlining cheese, crying some more, and watching TED Talks called “How to Fix a Broken Heart” while texts from your friends saying they’ve “always known he was a wrong’un” roll in. That’s what I’ve been doing, at any rate. A few weeks ago, my boyfriend of five years – the person I thought I wanted to marry – broke up with me. Mere hours after we had danced together to my Discover Weekly playlist and watched a meme compilation in bed, he told me he needed to be on his own to figure out his life. Did you know you could simultaneously choke on your own snot while hyperventilating? I didn’t! In the weeks since, I've had to figure out how to survive in an alien world where I'm not his girlfriend – I had absolutely no idea how to be me, minus him. But many, many others have also gone through this gut-wrenching period of mourning, grieving over a future they thought they and their partner s

Share: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share using Native tools Share Copied to clipboard So you’ve been dumped . Fucking sucks, right? Chances are you’ve spent the last 400 hours or so crying, mainlining cheese, crying some more, and watching TED Talks called “ How to Fix a Broken Heart ” while texts from your friends saying they’ve “always known he was a wrong’un” roll in. That’s what I’ve been doing, at any rate. A few weeks ago, my boyfriend of five years – the person I thought I wanted to marry – broke up with me. Mere hours after we had

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