You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 178.

I'm not in control in my breakup.

Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time.

I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy.

Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy.

Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts.

How are you doing?

Let's dive in.

I want to talk about control during our breakup. I know for a lot of us, breakups can feel like a huge lack of control, especially when you were the one that was left, right?

Maybe you didn't make this decision. Someone else decided they no longer wanted to be with you,

and now it's affecting all of your life. And what we're

really doing is we're building off the conversation we had started last week in episode 177.

I had a client who really felt like the decision wasn't hers, that someone else decided

something and it significantly altered her life. And a part of that is feeling out of control, feeling like her ex was and is in

the driver's seat. So this week I wanted to talk about, well actually let's just recap.

Last week I talked about how is it possible that you do want this breakup? And if you want to listen to that episode, we're talking about, you know,

is it possible that this is something that you want?

If you are not, if you haven't explored that,

maybe you want to listen to that episode first before listening to this episode

because they kind of build on top of each other.

But if not, that's totally fine too.

We can progress forward.

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