
Originally Posted by
Bojangles69
If you had 10 girls lined up, numbers in your cell right now, you would NOT be giving this chick a seconds thought.
Relationships quell lifelong insecurities, its a known fact.
Anything you were insecure about before you met her, chances are they all got swept under the carpet and she helped you deal with those problems. This is always how it works out in relationships. Then one day you break up, and you're left to deal with all the crap she made you forget about. Its a shock to the limbic system, and chances are you'll feel it.
I'm doing my thesis this year on break ups, so as versed as I already am, I'm currently doing tons of research on specific coping strategies.
One thing you need to understand is the process of pair bonding with a female, requires that you associate a lot of negative traits of a person as positive. Things that would urk normal people, like love handles, hair on her arms, a bent nose, you associate all those things as positive traits throughout the course of a relationship.
You do the same thing with negative personality traits. What REALLY hurts in a break up, is NOT that you're broken up, but the mind is CHANGING, and reassociating new and more accurate beliefs to your partner.
Thats all it really is, you get into a relationship you ASSOCIATE bad things as good,
you get out of a relationship you DISSASSOCIATE bad things from the good, and get a much more logical perception of the person you were once dating.
"Love is blind" holds truth in so many more ways then one.
And the actual pain you feel, is because your brain doesn't like to adopt new beliefs, it causes anxiety for everyone. Because people like to think they have other people figured out, it brings comfort into their lives. Well trying to figure someout is almost like trying to predict the weather, its always unpredictable, and you NEVER really have anyone figured out.
When you reach that stage, you'll start to percieve your ex almost as someone you never met, or a stranger, and THAT causes pain, discomfort, and makes you question your own self worth. "Wow, 6 months ago, I knew this girl like the back of my hand... and now, I don't even know her". Its all about the process of change. Just remember its not the girl causing the pain as much as it just is the situation. You can replace that girl with anyone else, and you'd most likely still be feeling what you're feeling. Because its not so much the parting that hurts, but being reexposed to the dating world with new beliefs and insecurities, it requires you start using your brain in a new and different way (to avoid past pain) and THATS what really causes the most discomfort.
Just understand whatever you're going through is completely normal, no matter how bad it gets, or how easy it is, everyone copes in different ways. But finding new dating prospects helps a ton, because it helps you dissassociate quicker, it really DOES bring you to reality faster, which is why guys recommend it. Its more effective for just getting putang, it really does have a sort of therapuetic purpose.
G/luck with everything and don't be afraid to talk about shit, theres always guys who have been through this shit and know how to help you through. And on a serious note however, women usually DO get over relationships quicker (attractive women), theres psycho/biological reasons for this, mainly because they come from a frame of abundance (reproductively speaking) compared to males. And there is innately less fear because of this amost their entire lives (well as long as they're attractive (thats their reproductive value), but once the looks wear away is usually when the mid life crisis begins). But men don't have expiration dates like women, so even though women can emotionally move forward quicker (same reason why suicide rates are higher for men after breakups) men have a less disposable reproductive value. So it all balances out in the end. When a man gets older, he doesn't have to deal with feeling useless because he lost the majority of his reproductive value, so you DO have better things to look forward to lol. Take care! - Bo