Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Do you remember the first time you ever fell in love? It can be such

a beautiful, wonderful experience for all of us. It just changes our world and makes us feel so warm and wonderful

inside. Love truly towards another person is one of the most exquisite experiences we can have as a human

being.

And yet at the same time, it can be one of the most painful, excruciatingly hard, torturous experiences

we may ever have.

It may even lead to us contemplating and perhaps even taking our own lives.

When that love ends, William Shakespeare, perhaps one of the greatest playwrights of all times, wrote a beautiful

play called Romeo and Juliet. I'm sure we've all seen it, read it, or even heard of it.

But the passionate intense love between these two lovers

Romeo and Juliet

ends in tragedy for so many reasons, but one of them is just the pain, the pain of the relationship

not being able to go forward. Relationships can be so hard when they end. So in today's

podcast we want to explore, are there ways to maintain our sense of peace and even happiness when romantic love ends.

And Shakespeare had it right, The leading cause of suicide among teenagers is when romantic love ends.

But even if we don't contemplate suicide, it can be so challenging when that person that we thought

we were going to spend our lives with isn't there anymore. They change so we ended the relationship? Or they decided to end the relationship

for a myriad of different reasons. Either case is still very challenging. But why? Why is it so

hard and is there anything that we can do to protect our hearts from this suffering? Do we necessarily

have to go through so much pain when our relationships end? because if we've lived long enough, we may go through several

heartbreaks throughout our life.

So let's start with, why is it so painful? I mean of course there are many reasons

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