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Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

#11: How Men & Women Process Breakups Differently

Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

Trina Leckie

Comedy, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

I think often, as women, it is perceived as though we feel so much more deeply, or are so much more sensitive than men – but that's simply not always the case. Men and women just show their emotions in different ways. And nothing could attest to this more than when it comes to relationships and the breakdown of relationships. 

Here's how men and women tend to handle breakups differently...

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Broken-hearted, feeling like the world is over, convinced you'll never meet anyone else.

0:07.0

Trina's breakup boost will help heal your heart and get you back in the dating saddle.

0:14.4

She'll give you straightforward opinions and advice for your love life.

0:20.1

The topic of today's episode is how men and women process breakups differently.

0:27.0

So I think often as women it's perceived as though we feel so much more deeply or so much more

0:32.1

sensitive than men, But that's simply not always the case.

0:36.7

Men and women just show their emotions in different ways. And it largely depends on individual

0:41.8

personality too though, so I don't want to generalize.

0:45.0

And when I say women do this or men do this throughout this episode,

0:49.5

it doesn't mean every single woman does this or every single man does this. I'm just

0:53.8

saying what studies have shown in the majority of cases just to make that clear.

0:58.0

Kind of like men are from Mars, women are from Venus. But I actually came

1:02.4

across an article about how men and women process

1:05.2

breakups differently and it was interesting because researchers found that

1:09.9

women feel more pain and anguish at the onset of the breakup but eventually recover,

1:16.4

whereas men, on the other hand, never fully recover from a bad breakup, they just move on. And I think the key word there is definitely bad breakup. It's not like a two-week fling or something.

1:30.0

Never fully recover sounds a tad dramatic to me.

1:35.0

You know, maybe a better way of putting it would be never having complete closure in a sense.

1:39.9

But a key reason for this is that in many cases women have better support systems.

1:45.2

You know they can talk about these types of things with friends and family until they're

1:48.3

literally blue in the face, repeating the same stories over and over, as if it was the first time they talked about it.

1:54.7

It's very therapeutic to talk about everything and get it all out, yes, but I want to

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