Ep. 313 - I wasted so much time with my ex
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
If you've been stuck replaying the thought, "I wasted so many years on my ex," this episode is going to blow your mind. Dorothy breaks down why those years weren't lost, they were the reason your life is about to move faster, clearer, and bigger than ever before. You'll learn how to spot the exact places your breakup actually added years to your life, financially, emotionally, physically, and even generationally. And how to stop handing your ex both your past and your future. If you're ready to turn what feels like lost time into the greatest comeback advantage of your life, hit play.
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| 0:00.0 | You were listening to How to Get Over Your Ex episode number 313. |
| 0:04.9 | I wasted so much time with my ex. |
| 0:18.9 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:35.2 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. I am sending you so much love. |
| 0:39.1 | Today I want to talk about something that came up in a recent Get Over Your X program |
| 0:44.6 | coaching call. |
| 0:45.9 | And honestly, it's something I have dealt with many times in the history of my breakup |
| 0:50.7 | coaching. |
| 0:51.6 | It is the idea that I have wasted so much time with my ex. And it's |
| 0:58.5 | totally natural to have this thought pop up after a breakup, whether you spent six weeks |
| 1:02.4 | together, six months, six years, 30 years with someone. However, we have to remember my beautiful |
| 1:09.3 | brave hearts that what we focus on grows. |
| 1:12.7 | So when you believe I wasted so much time with him or her, what happens is you will typically |
| 1:19.4 | feel shame, anger, frustration, and when you feel that way, you show up that way, playing out |
| 1:25.3 | old scenarios in your head head having fake arguments in your |
| 1:28.9 | head either with your ex or with yourself probably shitting on yourself saying something like |
| 1:34.1 | I should have seen it coming I should have noticed earlier I should have left earlier |
| 1:38.5 | which will result in I continue to waste time now on this person. Isn't that crazy? So focusing on wasted |
| 1:48.4 | time in your past actually creates wasted time in your present. And I was coaching a client on |
| 1:54.7 | this and we began to explore this concept of time and was it a waste of time or something else? |
| 2:00.6 | What's the opposite of wasted time? |
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