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5 Reasons Why It’s Hard to Break Up with Someone Even if You Don’t Love Them
Are you completely flummoxed about why it’s hard to break up someone, even if you don’t love them?
Do you think that it should be easy? I mean, you don’t love them and you want to find someone you do love, so breaking up should be easy, right?
Over my years of coaching clients in this exact position, I have come to learn that there are 5 clear reasons why it’s hard to break up with someone even if you don’t love them. Knowing and understanding them might help you be able to take the step and break up with them so that you can both move on.
#1 — The idea of hurting them feels bad.
This is a huge reason why people struggle to break up with someone they don’t love and the one that frustrates me the most because it’s not a good reason!
I have a friend who attracts girls like bees. It’s really amazing. And, almost without exception, especially if they sleep with him, he rarely is interested in a second date. And, almost without exception, those girls want a second date.
And do you know what he does? He doesn’t tell them he isn’t interested. He continues to interact with them but not as enthusiastically as he did before the date. They get clingy and insecure and he…