Ep. 341 - When you've tried everything to get over your ex and nothing's worked
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
If you've ever thought "I've tried everything to get over my ex and nothing is working" this episode is going to explain why. Maybe you've done the therapy, the journaling, the gym glow-up, the no contact, the dating apps, the "focus on yourself" advice, the lists of undesirable characteristics … and somehow they still take up space in your mind every single day. In this episode, I share the two biggest shifts that completely changed my own breakup recovery after spending a year and a half stuck obsessing over an ex who had already moved on. We're talking about the hidden reason time alone doesn't heal heartbreak, why most breakup advice only treats symptoms instead of the root problem, and what actually has to change if you want to stop thinking about your ex constantly and finally feel free. If you're exhausted from carrying the emotional weight of someone who's no longer in your life and scared this feeling will follow you forever, this conversation will show you a completely different way forward.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your X, episode number 341, when you've tried everything |
| 0:06.6 | to get over your ex and nothing has worked. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:28.6 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:36.5 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. How is everyone doing? I love you so much. You're so |
| 0:41.9 | important to me. I'm so grateful to be here with you today along your breakup journey wherever you are. |
| 0:48.2 | So today I wanted to talk about something that's really near and dear to my heart because it's an |
| 0:52.7 | experience that I've lived. |
| 0:54.8 | So I spent a year and a half trying to get over my ex. I also spent $47,000 trying to figure out |
| 1:01.7 | the solution to this. So like I've invested time, money, energy, effort, all of it, which we'll |
| 1:07.1 | talk about some of that other stuff later. I've also already spoken about it in multiple episodes before, but I really want to talk |
| 1:13.1 | about doing all of the things, trying all of the things. |
| 1:18.1 | I was in a relationship for seven years with this man that I truly thought I would marry. |
| 1:25.3 | And he left me to be with someone else dumb, right? |
| 1:28.7 | So dumb. |
| 1:29.6 | Hate that for me. |
| 1:31.3 | And honestly, she was so cool, you guys. |
| 1:33.6 | She could like French braid her hair. |
| 1:35.2 | She was skinny. |
| 1:36.4 | She was a gymnast of sorts or something. |
| 1:38.4 | She could do handstands and all of her Instagram photos on these really cool things. |
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