Ep. 280 - The real reason you're still stuck on your ex
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
You're stuck on your ex, and you don't know why. You've tried everything—cutting contact, waiting for time to heal, distracting yourself—but nothing is working. What if the reason you can't move on isn't what you think it is? In this episode, we're uncovering the hidden force keeping you emotionally tied to your ex and why the usual breakup advice isn't helping. If you've ever wondered, Why am I still not over this?—you need to hear this.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 280, the real reason you're still stuck on your ex. |
| 0:08.7 | Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.6 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:26.8 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.1 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. How are you doing today? This episode is all about why you're still stuck on your ex and what to do about it. This one is one of the most powerful lessons I have ever shared and it's the exact mindset shift that changed everything for me when I was struggling to move on. |
| 0:56.4 | So if you're feeling stuck, know this. |
| 0:59.1 | Just waiting for time to heal is not the answer, but today I'm going to show you what is. |
| 1:04.9 | So we are going to be talking about why you're not over your ex, why you are still stuck on them, and what to do about it. |
| 1:12.1 | Now, when we go through a breakup or a heartbreak of any kind, we are told that it's just |
| 1:19.6 | going to take time. And I highly disagree. Time has nothing to do with it. I want you to think about how some people are feeling great |
| 1:30.2 | about their breakup in a week or two or a couple months, right? Whereas some of us are still working |
| 1:35.5 | through it over a year or maybe even seven years, 10 years later. And if time has nothing to do |
| 1:42.9 | with your broken heart and healing, what does? |
| 1:46.5 | I also hear about the no contact role, which we'll talk about in a later episode as well. |
| 1:51.8 | I've talked about in multiple episodes prior to this, but some people go no contact and are still not over their ex. |
| 1:58.8 | Meanwhile, people who haven't gone no contact are over their ex. |
| 2:02.5 | Again, that is not the solution. |
| 2:05.7 | It has and always will come down to one thing. |
| 2:10.6 | And that one thing is our thoughts. |
| 2:14.8 | It's our thoughts about the breakup, the beliefs that we tie to it, the sentences in our |
| 2:20.9 | brain that keep us held back from moving on and getting over our ex. And there are a couple ways |
| 2:27.1 | that we see this play out. The first is this. When I ask someone, why do you think you're not over |
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