5 Expectations To Set For Yourself When Going Through a Break Up

When you are going through a break up, the prospect of getting on with your life seems completely impossible. You are alone, in pain, missing your person and you have no hope that you will ever be happy again. Your life is horrible and you aren’t sure how you are going to get through it.

I can promise you that you will get through it. Broken hearts don’t last forever and there are some things that you can do to hasten their mending.

An important piece of getting over your broken heart quicker is to set expectations for yourself when you are going through a break up, expectations that will allow you to be strong in the face of everything that is happening and have hope for the future.

Let me share some excellent expectations that you can set so that you can get well and move one.

#1- You will not reach out.

What I tell my clients who are going through a break up is that the number one most important part of surviving a break up and getting past it is to go ‘no contact.’

Many of us seek to be friends with our ex or stalk them on social media or ask their friends how they are — generally just going about our lives as if our ex was still a part of it.