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The Psychology of Breakups and Moving On

No amount of strategy from the mind can prepare you for matters of the heart. The heart is full of dark emotions, waiting to surface at the opportune time. What is love? Where does it spring from?

By KesavPublished about a year ago 3 min read
Map of the Human Heart (1991)

Breakups with a person always include a residual integration of the opposite person’s emotional bearing.

There is always the triple threat of manipulation, rejection, and toxicity when it involves the thought process of trying to get back with one’s ex. The extravaganza of emotional failure in not finding a suitable person to forget the old ex is nothing but a failure of human imagination.

It is quite a difficult situation where some people find themselves at the edge of a cliff, without the support of emotions and without the touch of the human body that had warmed their beds for many nights. But really, is it that much of a far stretch of imagination to think that persons of weak emotional structure try to engage in fantastical thinking, where they do not find anyone else and try to become a mirror reflection of their ex-boyfriend or girlfriend?This cascading emotion is not just a relative thing in the huge emotional spectrum.

What embodies this distressing and truncated inspiration is that highly intelligent people do not have much flexibility to resolve the kinetics of their emotional turbulence.

What is an expected consequence of this breakup is that persons will go around the dating pool trying to find someone who is similar to whom they have broken up with.

The same interpretability of similarly placed emotions can create a baseline understanding of what is happening in that person’s personal life. To be sure, matters of the heart are not to be trifled with. The distribution of perfect emotions across a young man’s or woman’s heart cannot be measured by any dataset.

However, the technicalities that remain when the ex has left are still a matter of rejection. The linearity of heart principles needs to be followed.

There is a famous saying that Romeo and Juliet is not a romance story. It is just a story of two dumb kids who died in the end.

Most males and females have this Oedipus and Electra complex, where they try to find reflections of their mother and father in their ex. This cannot exactly be termed incestuous. It is pure human folly and genetic mechanics. There is no such social order when it comes to matters of the heart.

How did you think the first man and woman led to this huge population? Do you really think humanity was brought up in so many groups across disparate regions of the world? There are many unknowns when it comes to the evolution of love and emotions.

The very fact that when you are trying to go in another direction, the rebound nature of a person might make them feel that it is better to stay with their ex than to find someone new. It’s a common saying that it is better to have a known devil rather than an unknown devil.

There is a very famous song, similar to the one in Stranger Darling, where one does not know who the other person will be — whether they can be condemned criminals, whether they are masochistic criminals. We do not know, but getting back with the known devil of your ex can feel comforting. However, one should know that without marriage, a relationship with your ex is bound to fail.

Many people will try to bring you down, but do not worry. You have to be mature enough to understand how things move here and there, creating a symphony and a resilient pathway to justice, where you emerge from childish emotions and develop a strong bearing of heart and mind.

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