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Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

#31: Working with Your Ex After a Breakup

Breakup Boost: Advice to Get Over Heartbreak

Trina Leckie

Relationships, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The topic of this episode is working with your ex. You know how they say it's not a good idea to get romantically involved with co-workers?  Yeah, well that's a great piece of advice because we know how tough a REGULAR breakup can be…but then you add work into the mix…and it can literally feel like you went from heaven to hell.

I have some tips for you that will helpfully help you cope...

 

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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.

0:17.8

Hey everyone, so the topic of today's episode is working with your ex. You know how

0:26.8

they say it's not a good idea to get romantically involved with a coworker?

0:30.4

Yeah, well that's a great piece of advice because we know how tough a regular breakup can be, but then you add work into the mix and then have to be in such close proximity to them every day.

0:44.0

Sheesh.

0:45.0

Honestly, where is the Xanax?

0:48.0

When you break up, you can't fully escape the relationship to start the healing process.

0:54.4

I mean, talk about an awkward, painful, and totally uncomfortable situation to be in.

1:01.1

The thing is, we don't think this far ahead at the time. We follow our hearts instead of our heads.

1:07.0

You know, we get all caught up with the excitement of this new thing. We're feeling all giddy and butterflies and excited to go to work each day rather

1:15.8

than dreading work each day.

1:17.0

We're actually looking forward to Monday morning.

1:19.9

You know, we're not thinking that a breakup could even be a possibility because why would we

1:24.4

want to think that? But it happens. So, and it's really common because places of

1:31.8

employment are one of the top places in which people meet and strike up a relationship.

1:36.0

Because so much time has spent together, you know, it's just, it's almost like even if you don't like someone,

1:42.0

when you spend a lot of time with them you can kind of

1:43.9

start to see them in a different light that can happen too and it's also kind of like

1:48.9

when celebrities film a movie together and then suddenly they're dating or

1:52.3

maybe even engaged to be married.

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