Ep. 35 - How to stop competing with your ex
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Why does it seem like we are in constant competition with our ex? We were once a team and now all of sudden I feel like I'm losing at life. Comparison is normal however I'm seeing with my clients that we use it against ourselves instead of to help us.
In this episode:
- Learn why we compete and compare ourselves with our ex
- The different types of comparison
- The exact steps to use comparison as a way to catapult yourself into the life results you actually want
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 35, how to stop competing with your ex. |
| 0:07.6 | 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 |
| 0:20.7 | getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:23.8 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:26.0 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:32.3 | Hello, my brave hearts. |
| 0:34.3 | So this is a very long overdue episode. |
| 0:37.4 | It's super important. we're going to be |
| 0:40.0 | talking about why we compare ourselves to our ex and what to do about it so let's do this so when |
| 0:48.7 | my rock bottom breakup happened i for sure was like i totally get the short end of the stick here, if you know |
| 0:55.5 | what I mean. I was like, he's going to be a dentist, he has the house, he has the dog, he has a very |
| 1:00.8 | well-off family, he has a boat, he lives literally in the place I wanted to live for so long, |
| 1:06.3 | he'll be near my family, he was really going to live the life and have the life that I wanted and just |
| 1:13.5 | replaced me with a new girl. And it was so upsetting to me. I was devastated. And I was going to have |
| 1:21.8 | to go back to Chicago, which I love Chicago. But at the time, I wasn't, like, super keen to it. |
| 1:30.4 | I was going to have to go back to Chicago. |
| 1:32.0 | I was going to have to pay triple of what he was paying for the house to rent a 700 |
| 1:35.9 | square foot apartment, not even downtown. |
| 1:39.0 | Then I was going to have to not have the dog. |
| 1:41.2 | I was going to miss out on our baby girl Lucy and be really far away |
| 1:45.5 | from my family and start from scratch again. Now that was the way my brain wanted to see the |
| 1:53.2 | situation in the very beginning. But as soon as I found out about him and this new girl, |
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