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

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

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

The topic of today's episode is, maintaining your own identity in a relationship.

Okay, so when people get swept up with someone, it is really common for them to want to

spend all of their free time together.

Especially in the beginning phase, when everyone's so happy and everything is, you know, butterflies, rainbows, unicorns.

The thing is, though, this is actually not healthy in the long run. You still need to have your own individual lives and maintain

your own identity. And sure it's cool to have mutual friends, but you still need to

have your own set of friends to do things with.

Always set aside time to get together for a night out, dinner, movie, comedy,

whatever, away from your special someone.

Not to mention, if you break break up there won't be the awkward

part where you were sharing the same friends because you know what some of those

people may choose a side and you could be left with nobody. Also if you were to disclose certain things about

your ex it can easily get back to them if you share friends. The best thing is

just don't gossip at all but you know how that goes.

It can also be harder to get over the other person if you split when you share friends,

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