Tips: How to break up with a lovely person
Newsflash: Lovely, nice, sweet, fantastic, considered-wonderful-by-society’s-standards people have breakups. Far too many people, though, behave as if only ‘bad’ people should get dumped or have their feelings unreciprocated. There’s also this...We don’t want to do the hard thing, but we do want the freedom it offers
No one really wants to go No Contact. They don’t. It’s why when we’re post-breakup and struggling to get over them or hurting from continued disrespect, mind games, mixed messages or just the realisation that it’s not possible to be friends at this...
Blindsided with a breakup: What to do when you can’t get answers
Have you been blindsided with a breakup? It’s difficult enough when you sense or know that the end is nigh for your relationship. Maybe the writing’s on the wall because of the way they are behaving. Perhaps it’s because you’ve both tried to...How To Tell Someone You’re Not Interested Without Ghosting
When I dated back in the day, one of my struggles, aside from not being interested in emotionally available men (cough), was ending relationships. Looking back, I wish I’d had a couple of handy break-up scripts. As someone who baulked at conflict and criticism...
People Pleasing & Breaking Up With Dignity Are Mutually Exclusive
One of the biggest barriers to making the decision to break up, staying broken up, or breaking up with your self-esteem in tow, is people pleasing in an attempt to influence and control the other person’s feelings and behaviour. In this situation, you think that...
