7/30/08

5 Tips to Help You Win Your Ex Back

By Erik J. Michaels


A hard breakup can make folks go to pieces, and picking yourself up for an honest effort to get your ex back can be really difficult. These 5 tips are to help give you an easier time of trying to make things work out for the best.

1. Breakup pain hurts, but it's no reason to let your life pass you by. Letting your pain get the best of you and keep you from living your life only creates more problems for you to have to deal with. If you're going to come out on top of all this, you're going to need to find the strength to keep going regardless of how much pain you feel over this breakup. It's natural to feel it, but don't let it control you or hold you down.

2. There are a lot of escapes people turn to in order to lessen their pain. Many of them aren't particularly bad for you, but one in particular that can make everything worse is unfortunately the most common: substance abuse. I'm not saying one drink now and again to take the edge off will ruin your life, but a lot of broken-hearted, depressed people will turn to binge drinking or drugs to drown their pain...this only makes things worse. Find healthy ways to deal with your pain, instead of adding more trouble to your life.

3. Cut off all contact with your ex for about a month. This has an entire list of positive effects, but the main one you should worry about right now is the break it gives you to pull yourself together before trying to get him back. The time away from each other will help both of you balance yourselves out, so that things can run more smoothly after the month is up.

4. Go by your head, not your heart. Emotional turmoil like this can lead you astray where your mind knows you shouldn't go. Trust in a solid plan, not in whatever your first impulses are.

5. Be willing to accept that you two may not be destined to be together...but don't let that hold you back from giving it your best. 95% of breakups can be fixed if handled properly, but there is that chance that you two aren't each others' true soulmates. Be prepared for that possibility, but do your best to solve the problems you face.

These 5 words of advice should help you a lot in getting through this time and coming out successfully living your life, but only if you heed what they say. Remember this information, and you should have a lot simpler time surviving this breakup.

The best advice I can possibly give you right now is to make sure you have a plan. This is a great thing to be working on during that month of no contact, and it'll really come in handy when that time is up and it's time to work towards getting him back. Going into this without a plan or underlying strategy just isn't wise, and you'll probably find yourself having a lot harder of a time without it.

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