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How do I start to live a life without the person I can't live without?

Profile: eleenaagoo
eleenaagoo on Mar 4, 2020
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If you focus on yourself, you improve with yourself and you also stop focusing on others as much, including that person you thought you couldn't live your life without. Also, through finding specific hobbies or passions(which also ties with focusing on yourself) you can learn to use the means of an escape until it is not an escape anymore. For example, my mother lost her parents, which really hurt her emotionally. However, with her love of painting, she was able to be happy again. With this passion, she was also able to gather different friends that now she can share a life with, instead of just being alone (aside from having my dad and I)
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Profile: jessicamae98
jessicamae98 on Apr 10, 2020
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This was a really difficult situation I was in about a year ago when my boyfriend broke up with me out of nowhere. I definitely felt like I couldn't live without him. I felt like I lost my best friend and my life partner and I couldn't imagine myself ever with anyone else. Every situation is different, but some things that worked for me was that I got rid of everything (or put away) everything that reminded him. I deleted his number and blocked him on all social media (not to get him upset, but so I wouldn't be tempted to see what he was up to). I kept myself surround by friends and family that I could lean on and be honest with about how I was feeling. I focused on myself and started running/dancing/kickboxing to get rid of stress. Above all, I was patient with myself. I acknowledged that he was a very important person in my life and that he couldn't be forgotten or replaced. Even a year later, I'm still not 100%, but I've made so much progress from where I was a year ago.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Apr 17, 2020
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First you got to have to accept it. Acceptance that you're going to live your life without him. it is easier said than done, yeah but it is what's need to be done. With acceptance comes moving on. it's a long process, it isn't easy, but it isn't impossible. Write your progress everyday, there will be times you'll want to give up but then remember the efforts you put into it. it is normal to feel sad, to cry, to get angry - get it all out don't keep them inside. You'll get through it. You got to want it for it to happen.
Profile: dragster
dragster on May 27, 2020
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there's much potential in life and that's not the end, might be painful at this moment. I don't want to become a substitute but i can walk with you along your path and you won't be alone there. There will always be a place you can look up to, a place you are not bound to fear and share anything without being judged. Always feel free to express yourself, don't carry the fear of being judged. let out all the pain you have been facing and set yourself free, please take time to share your thoughts whatever it might be
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Strawberrymunchkin360 on Jul 11, 2020
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You live the best life you can imagine for yourself without that person. You had a before, and now you start your after. Now is the time to fully focus on yourself, and whatever makes you happy. Nows the time for growth, and reflection. The possibilities for your life are endless. You can finally have control of it without needing to compromise with another person. It will be hard, some days more than others, but it will get better. It sounds cliche, but you will create a new normal for yourself. Turning that fear and unknown into something else is powerful. If that person is supposed to be in your life they will be. If not, thats okay too.
Profile: Healtogether702
Healtogether702 on May 22, 2022
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that is a tough one.. I don't know... I am. trying to figure it out now myself... and so far I have no answer. Maybe allow yourself to start a life acknowledging that without them the life still has go on, even though it feels like it can't. Or maybe just try to find another reason to live, which may at the moment seem futile, but gotta be something out there worth living for. In the worst case scenario, you just plough through it day by day, and see what happens.
Profile: SoulMagic143
SoulMagic143 on Dec 27, 2016
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Always remember this, Happiness is an emotion that only you yourself have total and ultimate control over, never let anyone or anything control your own happiness, reflect back on your life before that person came into your life, you was living life to the fullest before them and you can surely live a beautiful life without them
Profile: paul1982
paul1982 on Feb 16, 2017
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It will take time but after a while this person will invade your thoughts less and less. Move on woth your life and try new things and make new friends that don't constantly remind you of them. Join a new club, take a college course and take some time out to focus on yourself.
Profile: YourFriendforever
YourFriendforever on Mar 5, 2017
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It's definitely fine to think about others but self care is equally important. If you do not know how to take care of yourself , nothing will work fine. So you must accept your feelings and move on in life, tell yourself that you need to stay strong :)
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Apr 14, 2017
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By keeping yourself busy and entertained and also by not keepeing yourself from doing anything that you would like to do because of the fact that you have to start on your own. When you start to realise that you are strong enough to cope with the challenges that life presents to us on our own terms, then you'll start to get better!
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