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8 Stages Of A Breakup And How To Navigate Them
Going through a breakup sucks. But thankfully, understanding its stages and how to navigate them makes the journey easier. So here they are.
Going through a breakup sucks. It’s confusing, it’s overwhelming, and it feels like drowning in a fucking sewer sometimes. Thankfully, understanding its stages and how to navigate each one makes the journey a bit easier to trudge through.
Specifically, it helps you determine where exactly in the recovery process you reside emotionally, how long it’ll take to get past your breakup, and what obstacles you can expect along the journey. Pretty useful shit.
However, as useful as the topic is, breakup stages are misunderstood by many. So before I list them, be a good buckaroo and bake the following on the inside of that brain of yours: breakup stages — and with them, the entire recovery process — don’t unfold linearly and we usually have a different starting point.
Allow me to unpack this.
Breakup stages not unfolding linearly simply means you don’t go from one to the next and never revert to any of the previous ones. Typically, you’ll cycle back and forth through each stage several times before you reach the final one.
