You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 229, from depressed to empowered.

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, beautiful Braveheart's. How is everyone doing today?

I'm so excited. Today we have a wonderful

guest named Melissa on. She has just wrapped up the Get Over Your X program and I wanted her to come on

and share her breakup journey. She was so powerful. Everything that she shared was so insightful.

I feel like her breakup journey is going to be unbelievably helpful to everyone listening.

And so I'm really excited to dive in.

So Melissa, I just wanted to say thank you so much for coming on.

I know the brave hearts are going to love you.

And I know they're just going to be so grateful that you came on and share your story.

Thanks for having me, Dorothy. Yes. All right. So let's start with where you're from because for us in the United States, we're going to be like, you have an accent. Where are you from? Tell us everything. Can you tell us who you are, where you're from, what you do, that kind of thing? Sure.

So I'm over the other side of the world in Australia, in Melbourne.

I'm 53.

I'm a mom of two teenagers.

Yeah.

I love it.

So good. So then why don't you give us a background like give us the background of your breakup story how long were you dating what happened did he break up with you did you

did you break up with him give us the tea so i split up from the dad of my kids about 12 years ago, but we stayed really close as a family,

still did lots of things together. And I didn't date for a long time. And then I met my ex

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