The 15 quite noticable symptoms and realisations of having properly broken up with someone while in your 30s and after a long haitus of singledom
1. It sucks equally whether you are 1, 11, 21 or 31.
2. Brain freeze - yes my brain has absolutely stopped responding to any stimuli - internal or external. Life has a brainless rhythm these days.
3. A painful dichotomy of your mind telling you that you will get over this one as well while your heart wants to linger in the break-up aftermath as for some reason it feels sadistically romantic.
4. You literally don't want to speak to no men - dad, brother, friend, gardener alike.
5. Ofcourse the endless dissection of what you, they or life could have done differently to save you from what happened and how totally technicolor the future would have been if they were still with you.
6. Unrealistic idolisation of your object of desire - suddenly he is the most sublime of God's creations and it is virtually impossible to even think of someone who would come as close to being a replacement, forget someone better.
7. The stress of how long will you actually take to get over this one after all. How many things is it likely to mess up in the process - work, other relationships, your health, your fitness regime and so on.
8. The strong desire to revel in the heartbreak and feel it more than it actually feels by accompanying it with poems of longing and mush bollywood songs.
9. FEELING OF EMPTINESS
10. That they are not even thinking or feeling any of these things and have probably already gotten on with their lives will keep sending pin pricks to your heart.
11. Aggressive make believe of how much you are better than them and how they will never ever find anyone close to you and they will be hopelessly single all their lives.
12. Weighing other potential options to begin dating once all of this is over but resigning exhaustedly from even texting them a 'hi'.
13. WAITING FOR THE PHONE CALL.
14. Wondering what is it exactly that makes a relationship last?
15. Being grateful for your absolutely inseparable support system of friends and how they have carefully seen you through this and many others even though you know they will never understand how terrible you feel and even though they know you well enough to know that you shall pass this too.
1. It sucks equally whether you are 1, 11, 21 or 31.
2. Brain freeze - yes my brain has absolutely stopped responding to any stimuli - internal or external. Life has a brainless rhythm these days.
3. A painful dichotomy of your mind telling you that you will get over this one as well while your heart wants to linger in the break-up aftermath as for some reason it feels sadistically romantic.
4. You literally don't want to speak to no men - dad, brother, friend, gardener alike.
5. Ofcourse the endless dissection of what you, they or life could have done differently to save you from what happened and how totally technicolor the future would have been if they were still with you.
6. Unrealistic idolisation of your object of desire - suddenly he is the most sublime of God's creations and it is virtually impossible to even think of someone who would come as close to being a replacement, forget someone better.
7. The stress of how long will you actually take to get over this one after all. How many things is it likely to mess up in the process - work, other relationships, your health, your fitness regime and so on.
8. The strong desire to revel in the heartbreak and feel it more than it actually feels by accompanying it with poems of longing and mush bollywood songs.
9. FEELING OF EMPTINESS
10. That they are not even thinking or feeling any of these things and have probably already gotten on with their lives will keep sending pin pricks to your heart.
11. Aggressive make believe of how much you are better than them and how they will never ever find anyone close to you and they will be hopelessly single all their lives.
12. Weighing other potential options to begin dating once all of this is over but resigning exhaustedly from even texting them a 'hi'.
13. WAITING FOR THE PHONE CALL.
14. Wondering what is it exactly that makes a relationship last?
15. Being grateful for your absolutely inseparable support system of friends and how they have carefully seen you through this and many others even though you know they will never understand how terrible you feel and even though they know you well enough to know that you shall pass this too.
