Ep. 204 - How do I stop second-guessing a breakup I initiated?
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, the Breakup Coach Dorothy addresses the complex emotions that follow a breakup when you're the one who initiated it. She dives into the feelings of doubt and regret that can arise and outlines how to release regret and make decisions from calm clarity. Whether you've already made the decision to break up and you're feeling regret or you're worried about breaking up because you might feel regretful and second guess yourself, you're going to want to tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 204. |
| 0:04.7 | How do I stop second guessing a breakup I initiated? |
| 0:12.3 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:26.7 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, hello, my beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:34.1 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:36.5 | So much of this podcast, I am talking about |
| 0:39.5 | those of you who were left, right? You didn't want the breakup and then boom, someone made a |
| 0:45.0 | choice that altered your life significantly. Now, all of my tools and everything I share can |
| 0:50.8 | be applied if you're the person who chose to leave, but a lot of times people |
| 0:54.8 | will reach out to me and ask, is there an episode that talks about, you know, if you |
| 0:59.9 | were the person who left and now you're feeling terrible and you're regretting and, you know, |
| 1:03.8 | second guessing your decision? So I thought I'd go ahead and talk about that specifically today. |
| 1:09.1 | I have two other episodes that |
| 1:10.8 | really come to mind for this topic. The first one is How to Say Goodbye, which was recorded, |
| 1:17.0 | I think at the end of 2020 or beginning of 2021. And then there's another more recent one called |
| 1:22.9 | When Should I Leave My Relationship? And that was recorded around July of 2023. But today we're |
| 1:28.9 | specifically going to be talking about I decided to leave and then I noticed myself second |
| 1:34.7 | guessing my decision and doubting the decision that I made. Now, we're covering this topic and |
| 1:40.9 | this topic and the way that I'm about to cover it is going to help for two reasons. |
| 1:45.3 | The first is for those of you who haven't left your relationship but have been thinking about |
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