"How do you nurse a broken heart?"

Hi!

I have posted this question as a title of my thread. But i want to ask you this as well. I might get another sensible answer... Here goes:

"How do you nurse a broken heart?"

Thanks!

Sports Jock

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Hi Sports Jock!

There are many ways I can think of to nurse a broken heart. But at the end of the day, what works for others may not work for you. It is always a matter of what works for you.

Ever heard of time 5 stages of grieving? I've always believed that to be able to fully recover from a painful heartbreak, one must go through these 5 stages and only then can healing start.

The first stage is denial. This is the stage where you still could not believe that the relationship is over and you still hold on to hopes that things can still be better between you and your partner.

The second stage is anger. This is when you get a little bitter and tend to point all your hatred to your partner for ruining everything you had.

Bargaining is the thirs stage wherein you ask the Higher Powers or wish that whatever you had can be revived in exchange of anything or everything you can give.

The fourth stage is depression. In this stage, it has already sank in that everything's over and you are just saddened that nothing can be done to ever bring it back.

And finally, acceptance. You have accepted that it is over and it is time to move on. This ends the stage of grieving. Once you have accepted that it is not coming back, you get the strength to stand up and continue walking.

They say time can heal all wounds. I definitely agree with this. There is no pain that time could not, if not erase, at least ease or alleviate. However, time alone cannot heal all wounds. There has to be faith in yourself that you can move on. It is a choice for you to make.

Moving on is not the end of a struggle to nurse your heart. It's a choice. You can distract yourself by keeping yourself pre-occupied with things or dating new guys, but as soon as you're alone and there is nothing more to do, the memories will come rushing back and it will torture you.

Loving, letting go, and moving on are always choices that you can choose to make. Difficult but not impossible. You can only heal your heart from pain once you've accepted that a part of your life has ended to give way to a new one.

Thanks for asking!

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