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Tips On How To Deal With Breakup Guilt From A Therapist

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Skip navigation! ADVERTISEMENT DISCOVER WATCH SHOP +MORE United States Story from RELATIONSHIPS ADVERTISEMENT Breakups Can Be Harder For The Instigator, Actually BETH ASHLEY LAST UPDATED JANUARY 24, 2024, 2:50 PM PHOTOGRAPHED BY MEG O'DONNELL “I just turned 30 a few months ago and I was in a 10-year relationship. I’d literally been with her for my entire 20s. I realized I wasn’t where I wanted to be in life at all. I’d barely done anything. I wanted to change that, and I just didn’t think I could do it with her,” Stephen, 30, who only wants to share his first name to protect his identity, tells Refinery29. Now, he’s going through breakup guilt. Stephen was the one to initiate the breakup with his girlfriend of 10 years. "It would have been easier for everyone if someone had been a dick, if there had been something for one of us to blow up at each other over," he says. "Something to make us hate one another." ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT "The hard thing was, it wasn’t about her," he cont

Story from Relationships Breakups Can Be Harder For The Instigator, Actually Beth Ashley Last Updated June 8, 2026 , 3:00 PM Photographed by Meg O'Donnell “I just turned 30 a few months ago and I was in a 10-year relationship . I’d literally been with her for my entire 20s. I realized I wasn’t where I wanted to be in life at all. I’d barely done anything. I wanted to change that, and I just didn’t think I could do it with her,” Stephen, 30, who only wants to share his first name to protect his identity, tells Refinery29. Now, he’s going through breakup guilt. Stephen was the one to initiate th

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