Ep. 290 - Stuck on Your Ex Because You Think No One Else Will Measure Up?
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
You're stuck thinking your ex was the only person you could ever truly want and every time you meet someone new, your brain seems to prove it. In this episode, we break down why you're not just missing your ex, you're caught in what I call a "mental hostage situation." I'll show you how your brain is running two hidden tracks at once, how they're keeping you stuck, and the simple shift that breaks the loop. If you feel like no one could ever measure up to your ex, this episode will change how you see everything and open up possibilities you can't even see yet.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 290. |
| 0:04.6 | Stuck on your ex because you think no one else will measure up. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:27.1 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:37.2 | Welcome back to the How to Get Over Your X podcast. |
| 0:39.8 | I am your coach, Dorothy, and today we're diving into something I see all of the time in my coaching practice, |
| 0:45.7 | but it rarely gets spoken about in the mainstream breakup advice world. |
| 0:50.1 | So here we go. |
| 0:51.2 | I had a coaching session recently, literally today, with a beautiful badass braveheart. |
| 0:56.1 | We'll call her Jenna that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. |
| 1:00.7 | And her situation was so illuminating that I knew I had to share it with all of you because |
| 1:05.2 | I bet many of you are caught in the exact same trap without even realizing it. |
| 1:10.0 | So Jenna's been stuck on her ex for a while now |
| 1:12.6 | they work at the same company which is a smaller company they're practically neighbors and even though |
| 1:17.0 | it's been a long time since their official breakup she still finds herself consumed with thinking about him |
| 1:22.2 | with thoughts about him right and he's now moved on seeing someone new and he never reaches out |
| 1:27.0 | anymore but here is where it gets interesting. |
| 1:31.0 | When I asked her what freedom from this situation would look like, she didn't actually say finding someone new or falling in love again. |
| 1:40.3 | She said, I'd have more bandwidth to focus on other things. |
| 1:44.2 | I would feel reasonable with the ability to not think about someone who is not making an effort to be in my life. |
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