#209 Listener Episode: When Your Ex Hops Right Into a New Relationship
Mar 19, 2024
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Listeners hear a female's post-breakup journey, shocked by ex's new relationship. Topics include anxious attachment style, self-discovery, coping mechanisms, and personal growth. Insights on emotional aftermath, attachment styles, and building resilience. Gratitude for podcast support and impactful sharing in tough times.
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Reflect on adapting to fit a relationship, understanding anxious attachment style, and prioritizing personal growth post-breakup.
Navigate emotional turmoil post-breakup, embracing coping mechanisms and gradual healing, emphasizing the transient nature of emotions.
Deep dives
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Breakup Experience Reflection
The featured guest, Natasha, shares her experience of a breakup two years ago, involving a three-year relationship that culminated abruptly despite underlying relationship issues. Following the breakup, Natasha reflected on how much she had adapted herself to fit the relationship, realizing her anxious attachment style and the need to prioritize self-discovery and personal growth through introspection and learning to establish boundaries.
Coping with Post-Breakup Discoveries
Natasha recounts a post-breakup incident where she inadvertently discovered her ex's involvement with a new person through a social media platform. Finding out details of his activities with the new individual triggered feelings of devastation, leading Natasha to navigate through emotional upheavals, journaling, and employing coping mechanisms, emphasizing the importance of feeling the emotions and gradually working through them.
Dating Journey and Personal Growth
Natasha candidly recounts her dating experiences post-breakup, including an early introduction to a new relationship three months after the breakup, acknowledging the lack of compatibility but appreciating the learning opportunity it provided. Subsequently, Natasha took a hiatus from dating to focus on self-exploration, eventually re-entering the dating scene with a clearer sense of her preferences and expectations, emphasizing growth and understanding in forging meaningful connections.
Insights and Self-Discovery Post-Breakup
In a reflective conversation, Natasha shares her profound learnings from the breakup experience, delving into unearthing her anxious attachment style and embracing self-betterment tools like therapy and resources such as books and podcasts to navigate through emotional complexities, culminating in a transformational journey of self-awareness and personal growth, underscoring the enduring message that 'this too shall pass.'
In today's listener episode I speak with a female listener who went through her breakup 2 years ago after a 3 year relationship. Even though the relationship wasn't great at the end she talks about how it still shocked her when he ended it, and we talk a lot about the pain of finding out her ex was in a new relationship almost right away. We also discuss coming to terms with realizing how much you've been molded by your ex, anxious attachment style, being open to doing things differently moving forward and much more!
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