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Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

#121: Should You Keep in Contact on a Break? (advice for taking a break in a relationship)

Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

Trina Leckie

Comedy, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

I'm not a fan of "taking a break" as you will know from Episode 60, but if you DO decide to take a break, should you stay in contact?

 

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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.

0:10.0

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

0:15.0

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

0:20.0

Hey guys, the topic of this episode is should you keep in contact on a break

0:27.9

So let's just dive right into it. Okay, so when people take a break, the relationship is often on its last leg.

0:35.0

Like just keeping it real. You're not going to take a break if things are amazing, right?

0:39.0

In some cases, people are just holding on to what's left because they're scared to completely let go.

0:47.0

Or maybe they don't want to hurt the other person, so they think that saying,

0:51.0

hey, I think we should take a break

0:53.4

is an easier way to deal with things.

0:56.2

And that may also be their way of just pushing you away

0:58.9

hoping you get the hint, a way to inch closer to the break or they may be using it as an excuse

1:06.4

to see what else is out there without carrying around guilt you know knowing that

1:11.0

they can return if need be later,

1:13.6

pretty much like keeping a door open that they know that it's not fully shut, right?

1:20.5

The thing that happens when people are on a break though is that they often stay in contact.

1:26.4

And this is because they're so used to being in contact that it is a difficult transition to make. Or one person is feeling really insecure about the

1:36.4

break. Like if you're asked for a break you're going to be a lot more

1:39.5

insecure about it, right? So you might want to keep tabs on the other person. You know, the problem with all

1:45.9

this though is that if you're too available, you are giving the other person the ideal situation. They don't have a chance to miss you because you clearly can't stop

1:56.2

thinking about them. And it makes them way more secure in dating others because they assume that they can have you back at any moment and

2:06.0

they're probably right.

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