6 Reminders If Your Healing Process Is Taking Longer Than You Hoped
By Holly Riordan
1. Time isn’t the only condition. Effort matters, too. You’re not going to get over someone if you allow yourself to daydream about them every single night and count all the reasons you miss them. You need to remember, it’s natural to do those things at first. You’re allowed to mourn the end of a relationship. You’re allowed to feel sorry for yourself for a while. But you shouldn’t keep replaying moments with them in your head on a nightly basis if it’s been years and years and years. Time is going to help your heart heal, but not on its own. It needs your help. You have to want to get over them. You have to want to let go.
2. When it comes to healing, timelines are imaginary. There’s no exact date when you should be over them. It’s not going to take exactly six months or a year. It could happen at any time, and it happens differently for everyone and every relationship. There’s no telling when you’re going to be over them. The healing process could take longer than your last heartache or it could fly by faster. Either way, one day, you’re going to wake up and realize you haven’t thought about them in a while. It will happen without you even noticing it.
3. Healing doesn’t always mean what you think it means. Sometimes moving on from someone doesn’t mean…
