Ep. 173 - How to stop comparing yourself to your ex's new partner
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
One of the most common questions I love answering is how to stop comparing myself to my ex's new partner. So far I've talked a lot on the podcast about how to stop comparing yourself to your ex but let's talk about what happens when they begin to date someone new and what to do when you find yourself constantly comparing yourself to that new person.
In today's episode:
- Learn why you compare to your ex's new partner
- Understand what to do when you find yourself constantly comparing yourself to your ex's new partner
- Become someone who is no longer consumed by this person
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 173. |
| 0:04.4 | How to Stop Comparing Your Exxed Your Exx's new partner. |
| 0:22.6 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.8 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:28.2 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:33.3 | Hello, my beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:36.4 | I am so excited to be here with you today. |
| 0:41.5 | I love you all so, so much. So before I start this episode, I really wanted to say a couple of lines that were inspired by an Instagram post that I saw. |
| 0:49.3 | It wasn't like the same exact wording, but they said something about how people were succeeding |
| 0:55.9 | and it didn't mean you were failing. So it really reminded me of how we view comparing ourselves |
| 1:02.7 | to our ex's new partner and I just wanted to read it. Just because it looks like they are |
| 1:07.2 | succeeding doesn't mean you're failing. Just because it looks like they are happy doesn't mean you can't be. Just because it looks like they are succeeding doesn't mean you're failing just because it looks like they are happy |
| 1:11.6 | doesn't mean you can't be just because it looks like they have a great relationship doesn't |
| 1:16.6 | mean you don't or you won't and just because it looks like she has it all together doesn't |
| 1:22.3 | mean you don't or can't and I really want to be clear that we add it looks like in front of because we never really |
| 1:31.4 | know how someone is actually doing, right? |
| 1:34.2 | We might have a perception. |
| 1:36.6 | They might have even told us they're doing well, but we really have no clear idea as |
| 1:42.1 | to how and what their experience is like. So I think it's always important to |
| 1:47.5 | remember that it's it might look like one thing or it's seemingly one thing, but we |
| 1:53.2 | never really know what it truly is. And this is really important when it comes to |
| 1:57.8 | comparison because we are comparing through a lens and we never know what |
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