Ep. 316 - The breakup problem no one knows they're having

How to Get Over Your Ex

Dorothy AB Johnson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

If your breakup feels overwhelming, impossible, or like you keep getting stuck in the same emotional loop, this episode will change the way you think about your "breakup problems." Most breakup suffering comes from low-quality breakup problems. The kind that feels justified and absorbing, but leads nowhere: Why isn't he texting me? Did he ever really love me? What if he moves on first? They feel important, but they keep you spinning, proving your pain instead of solving it. Dorothy shows you how to spot when you're caught in low-quality breakup problems, how to redefine them into high-quality breakup problems that actually move your life forward, and how to approach your breakup problem-solving with the same mindset you bring to challenges you want to solve. This episode will help you upgrade the questions you're asking so you can create solutions you're actually excited about.

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0:00.0	You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 316, the breakup problem no one knows they're having.
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.
0:24.7	I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy.
0:26.8	Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy.
0:34.7	Hello, Braveheart's.
0:36.7	Tis the season of giving.
0:39.2	And I can feel it happening again, right?
0:42.9	The countdown to the holidays, the family gatherings, the questions, the empty seat at the table where they used to be.
0:50.3	And you're already bracing yourself, already rehearsing those answers, already planning how you're
0:56.9	going to get through it. I'm fine, really, I'm great. But you do not have to white knuckle your way
1:04.7	through your holiday season. You don't have to smile through Thanksgiving dinner while fighting back
1:09.3	tears. You don't have to post
1:11.0	photos pretending you're having the time of your life when you're actually barely holding it
1:14.8	together. And you don't have to wake up on January 1st realizing that you spent another
1:20.7	entire holiday season thinking about your ex. And I know you've been praying for a miracle. And my brave hearts, I today, right now,
1:32.5	am here to deliver. When you join the get over your X program in the next 48 hours, so today
1:40.5	and tomorrow, you get instant access to my course Healing Heartbreak over the holidays.
1:48.0	This is the course that I created specifically for this season, the season that makes
1:53.2	heartbreak feel 10 times harder because everyone around you is coupled up.
1:57.8	Everyone's posting their perfect family photos.
2:00.3	Everyone's talking about their plans,
2:01.8	their traditions, their person. And you're sitting there thinking like, this was supposed to be me.
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