You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 302.

Why am I scared to move on from my ex?

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, hello, my beautiful brave hearts.

This is it.

Today is the final episode of our mini series on how I would handle a breakup now, having years

and years of experience as an expert in this breakup industry, heartbreak industry.

And we have covered getting your biology baseline locked down, rebuilding your relationship

with yourself, and creating real closure.

But today we're going to be talking about the thing that nobody wants to admit you're scared

to get over your ex.

Not because you love them so much and you can't let go.

Like that is something that you're telling yourself, but it's not the real reason.

You're actually scared because getting over your ex means you have to become someone new

and becoming someone new means leaving the version of yourself that you've known

for years behind even if that version of yourself is absolutely miserable so I

want to give you an example I had a client who'd been kind of trying to get over

her ex for a lot of

years, she said, many years. And every time she started making progress, what she noticed is

she would go a few days without thinking about him. Every time she started feeling good about

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