Ep. 301 - How do I get closure from my ex?
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
You keep waiting for your ex to give you the closure you need, an explanation, an apology, some sign that what you had mattered to them. In this episode, I'm revealing the twisted psychology behind why begging for closure actually pushes your ex further away, and the counterintuitive approach that either gets you your ex back or something infinitely better. Plus, I'm announcing something I've never offered before that's going to change how you approach getting over your ex completely. If you're tired of waiting for someone else to set you free, this episode flips everything you think you know about closure upside down.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 301. |
| 0:04.6 | How do I get closure from my ex? |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:26.4 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:33.9 | Hello, hello, my beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:36.0 | How are you doing? |
| 0:37.4 | We're three episodes deep into this mini hearts. How are you doing? |
| 0:37.8 | We're three episodes deep into this mini series. |
| 0:41.0 | And if you've been following along, you know we've covered getting your biology baseline |
| 0:45.3 | locked down and loaded, right? |
| 0:47.8 | Rebuilding your relationship with yourself through examining your thoughts. |
| 0:50.8 | But today, today we're talking about the thing that keeps you up at night, |
| 0:55.0 | the thing you've been craving since the moment they walked away, da-da-da-closure. |
| 1:01.1 | And I know what you want, okay? |
| 1:03.7 | You want him to come back, look you in the eyes, and say, I fucked up. |
| 1:08.3 | I am sorry. |
| 1:09.7 | You were everything to me. I was an idiot to let you go. I'm so sorry. |
| 1:15.3 | You want answers. You want to understand why he left, what you could have done differently. |
| 1:20.8 | Maybe what she meant when she said, it's not you, it's me. You want acknowledgement that what you |
| 1:27.4 | had was real, that it mattered, that you weren acknowledgement that what you had was real that it mattered that you |
| 1:30.6 | weren't crazy for thinking it was special and honestly you might get some of that but |
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