I posted this before, this is my idiots guide to breaking up with a girl.
Step 1. Don't do what I've done in the past.
Step 2. Don't do what this guy is doing now
Anyhow, my month in review. I broke up with my girlfriend on August 30th/September 1st ish, 4 days before I was scheduled to go away to college, this was either my biggest break, or my worst nightmare. Fortunately due to lack of time I never found out. I was wisked away without getting a chance to sort anything out. Not only did things go awry between her and I, but I was going away, it was probably the thing that pushed her over the edge to breaking up with me.
The second I got back here, I don't think I thought about her at all, maybe once a day, when I would do silly things that would remind me of her, like cook her favourite food, go for a walk like I used to when I was with her, it would never pop up at a particular moment.
In my opinion, this is the thing that alot of you guys never get.. and I certainly didn't get until this point. This is the natural way of breaking up with a girl, you don't cry and pout about it, you don't spend every waking moment thinking about her, that isn't right. It doesn't help you, it doesn't help you get her back, it doesn't help her.
You know what that is, thats getting fixated, dwelling on the past, it kills your insides.
That being said theres nothing harmful about good memories floating up in the back of your mind, but thinking about things until they make you sick? Please for the love of god hand in your man card.
Do you think because you aren't fixated on her that the relationship meant nothing? You think that if she was the most important thing to you all you should do after you break up with a girl is think about her? Hell no. ****** happens, you have to move on, and be mature. Just because you don't think about her constantly doesn't mean you, or the girl didn't value your relationship, it means that for your emotional well being you can't sit there beating yourself up for it. Come on, someone tell me thats good for you! Right, I didn't think so.
To continue, over the past month we haven't really spoken, I got a message from her asking if I was okay after I almost got knifed trying to break up a fight a week after we broke up, and I got another message making sure I got settled into my apartment okay, and another message when she got the little 'i'm sorry gift' I've left by her door.
You don't make things better by constantly messaging her or emailing her.
Next thing, the time AFTER you break up, what do you do? Mope around? Sit in your room playing with yourself? ****** no. You do what you would NORMALLY do if you didn't have a girfriend.
Yes you dweeb. You know for those X amount of months that you were single between girlfriends? Thats what you should be doing, not jerking off to your pictures of her.
I've spent the past month hanging out with my friends, partying, doing school work, playing video games, watching TV, playing sports, working out. What a guy does.
When you break up with a girl your life DOESN'T STOP. You've gotta keep on working through it.
The past month has probably been the cleanest, easiest breakup of my life. It doesn't mean I don't care about her, god forbid she was the best girlfriend I've ever had, by a country-freaking-mile.
I guess my hope in this message is that someone here learns what a good breakup is like, and maybe gets some guidelines as far as what to do, how it should feel, what you should do to make yourself feel better.
You don't help yourself by becoming an empty shell of a man you once were, do your activities, eat well, hang with your friends, there will always be another woman (or man for some of you ladies AND gents).
This is my chance to be use my last month of being an introvert and putting it to good use, tomorrow night is the last memory she'll have of me, before I went away I bought her tickets to see the black eyed peas (her favourite group) and I'm realizing the finality of it all. LAME!
Cliffs:
The world doesn't end when you break up with a girl
Don't think about a girl
Just because you don't think about a girl doesn't mean you didn't value her (don't feel guilty)
Do your regular activities, do what you enjoy
Eat well, no one ever did any good by starving themselves
Feel good about yourself
There will always be another