Ep. 141 - Leaving the on again off again relationship
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Leaving an on again off again relationship is difficult. You've built up a reward loop in your brain that makes it feel like an addiction. You're not crazy, you're simply human. Join us today as Monique talks about her experience finally leaving her relationship for the last time. She'll discuss her biggest obstacles like guilt about leaving and how she overcame them with certainty, clarity and confidence.
In today's episode:
- Learn why you haven't left for good even though you really want to
- Understand what's holding you back and how to overcome it so that you can leave and start fresh in a healthy and kind way
- Become certain, clear and confident in your decision to leave
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 141, leaving the on-again, off-again relationship. |
| 0:22.8 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:28.5 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello, my beautiful Braveheart's. |
| 0:36.2 | How is everyone doing? |
| 0:40.3 | I have a special guest today. This is Braveheart alumni, Monique. And her story is very unique in that she actually didn't end up leaving |
| 0:48.5 | her partner until probably like halfway to three-fourths of the way into the program. |
| 0:57.1 | And of course, a lot of you who might be listening might be the person who left the relationship. But we still on the other |
| 1:03.5 | side of, you know, someone actually leaving the relationship, it's still a lot of turmoil. |
| 1:08.7 | And I think it's going to be really beneficial to hear her point of |
| 1:12.3 | view, as well as we're going to talk a lot about guilt, too, and trusting yourself and how do you make |
| 1:19.3 | that decision and how do you come to that conclusion? There's a lot of meat here. And I feel like |
| 1:25.7 | Monique brings a beautiful perspective around what this could look |
| 1:30.9 | like for you, but also what it really looked like for her and her journey. |
| 1:34.9 | So Monique, I am so excited to have you here. |
| 1:38.5 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:40.3 | Why don't you go ahead and just start out by giving us a little bit of information background on who you are, where you're from, and tell us a little bit about your breakup story and what ultimately led you to signing up for the Get Over Your X program. |
| 1:55.5 | Yeah. Well, thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to be on the How to Get Over Your Ex podcast. So, |
| 2:01.2 | you know, been a big fan. But that's kind of, I guess, where I'm going to start off with is I found |
| 2:06.5 | you and your podcast back in January 2021, during our particularly like rocky rough patch with my |
| 2:14.3 | now ex. And throughout 2021, I did like two of your five day breakup boot camp |
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