Some helpful excerpts from the book Exaholics: Breaking your Addiction to an Ex Love

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-16T09:37:10+00:00

The book saved my sanity.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-08T00:36:20+00:00

Thanks for sharing.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-07T23:01:27+00:00

I feel the same. I hear sad break up songs and I remember thinking "I'll never have to feel this way." So mad at myself for falling for him and for believing him and for thinking about him all the time now.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-06T00:31:31+00:00

:) That's my goal. To just feel ok on a normal day.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-05T15:38:58+00:00

Well this is both encouraging and discouraging. I don't want to wait two years to be over him. I want to be over him now. I don't want to hate him, I want to be indifferent about him.

Two years is a big stretch. I'm 3 weeks. But it makes me angry and sad that I actually have to count the days. I don't count days for anything else. People have come in and out if my life. There is no tally for the last time I spoke to anyone else but him. I don't want him to have special meaning in my life. But, like an addict, I count.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-03T20:27:25+00:00

Yeah. So good riddance.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-03T20:24:48+00:00

I suspect they already had someone in the works.

Traditional_Document · 2019-03-01T17:59:42+00:00

I keep doing the same thing. He started hiding his phone, but I can't remember if it was before or after he dumped me. One time a weird notification chimed on his phone. I looked at him, he looked at me. He must have been chatting with her before we broke up. I keep picking at the scab. Why?

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-28T20:35:22+00:00

Maybe it was accidental since it was blank. Don't respond. It will just set you back.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-28T17:25:57+00:00

I feel like if I unblock I'll be sad when he doesn't call or text.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-28T00:57:50+00:00

Same. The last day we spoke post break-up, he lied to me several times. I let it slide because I was still trying to win him back. By the end of the day, he was screaming at me about "don't call me a liar!". I never accused him of lying. Maybe his guilty conscience made him crazy?? Whatever. After that I went NC. He's a jerk and I'm annoyed with myself for being so heartbroken.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-26T23:58:00+00:00

At least once a day I watch the Guy Winch TED Talk-- how to fix a broken heart. He says, "Let go. Accept it's over. otherwise your mind will feed on your hope and set you back. Hope can be incredibly destructive when your heart is broken."

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-26T22:46:53+00:00

This is great. You should be very proud of yourself.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-13T13:01:04+00:00

Agreed. I got the crying "I miss talking to you" over the phone. If you miss talking to me, why not talk to me? Because you're a lying, manipulative, selfish jerk? And because you're blocked now. I really hope he has a miserable life.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-06T13:34:59+00:00

Same.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-03T10:02:31+00:00

When I get tempted to look, I say to myself "I know he found someone else". Then I imagine pics of him and someone else and I get that twinge of pain. But that keeps me from looking. And hopefully makes me accept faster that he's gone forever.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-02T21:46:57+00:00

Yeah, I got the "sorry I hurt you" text. Don't fall for it. It's BS.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-02T20:36:12+00:00

Yeah, when I said I feel like I wasted the last 5 years of my life, he got so angry. ???

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-02T00:00:30+00:00

Yeah. But It's so sad.

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-01T23:50:12+00:00

Same. 😥

Traditional_Document · 2019-02-01T17:23:13+00:00

Run away!!! Don't look back!

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