Healthline: How to Stop Loving Someone and Start Moving On

Most people would agree you generally can’t help who you fall in love with. But in some circumstances, you might wish that weren’t the case.

Maybe you love someone who doesn’t feel the same way about you. “The longing that accompanies one-sided love can affect emotional well-being and cause a lot of discomfort,” explains Kim Egel, a marriage and family therapist in San Diego.

Or perhaps you love someone who continually demonstrates they don’t have your best interests at heart. Maybe you and a partner love each other intensely but have too many differences to sustain a lasting partnership. Regardless of the situation, love is a complicated emotion. And even when it’s clear that a relationship isn’t doing you any favors, it can feel impossible to simply turn off your feelings.

These tips can help you start the process of moving forward.

1. Acknowledge the truth about the situation

2. Identify your relationship needs and deal breakers

3. Accept what the love and relationship meant to you

4. Look to the future

5. Prioritize other relationships.

Some Insights From This Article

• Breakups can be an excruciating difficult process but there are some tips in which you can learn to process and get over them. Acknowledging the relationship occurred and that there was a connection can be hard but a necessary step in beginning to process your heartbreak. Oftentimes putting away our relationship in effort to avoid heartbreak can do more harm than good.

• Once you feel more comfortable reflecting on your relationship, understand the dynamic of what it was like: what aspects did you like? What aspects did you think could have been better? This goes for you and the other person.

• One of the more important connections may have been severed but don’t forget the more stable relationships and loving people around you! Having someone you love (a friend or family member) that you can rely on an emotional anchor can help you guide this time.

• Ultimately come to understand that this life isn’t going to be perfect which goes for relationships. Good news is that we keep moving forward. Take the lessons from the relationship and go with confidence in moving forward!

What is something that helped you immensely during times of heartbreak?

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