Why You are Feeling Angry After a Break Up, Even if it was Mutual

Are you feeling angry after a break up, even if it was mutual?

Were you in a relationship that you knew was doomed and are you relieved that it is over but still angry for some unknown reason?

It makes sense. This happens to a lot of us at the end of a relationship, for so many reasons.

Here are 5 of them.

#1 — Unanswered questions.

Are there things that happened in the relationship that you don’t understand? Did something happened that changed the way you thought about things? Were you scared to ask questions or, if you did, were they left unanswered?

Unanswered questions can really be anger inducing.

I have a client whose relationship had just ended. They realized that they just had too many issues and that it wasn’t going to work out. He is angry, though, because he has some questions about what happened with his girlfriend’s ex over the course of their relationship.

He has a feeling that his girlfriend was talking to her ex the whole time they were dating but he wasn’t sure. It was part of what caused the disintegration of the relationship, his suspicions and her denials, although it wasn’t the whole thing. Now that the relationship is…