If the Breakup Hurts Too Much, Listen to This
Love Life With Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
There are breakups that hurt . . . and then there are the ones that feel like they’re splitting your life in two. In this episode, the Love Life Podcast team unpacks the kind of pain that’s so shocking and overwhelming that you can barely make sense of it—the heartbreak that leaves you questioning everything you thought was real. If you’ve ever been blindsided by a breakup, this conversation is for you.
You’ll learn what you can do when the pain feels unbearable and what your greatest power can be right now. Whether you want to know how to steady yourself, who to trust with your heart, or how to begin rebuilding, this episode will help you find your footing again.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Love Life podcast, everybody. Today we're talking about how to rebuild your life |
| 0:09.5 | after a breakup that you absolutely did not see coming. You know, there is a difference between that |
| 0:16.8 | and those slow car crashes where we know that someone is unhappy, you know, they've threatened |
| 0:23.8 | the breakup several times, maybe we both have. |
| 0:27.5 | There's that heartbreak of it's finally over, but there was a kind of an off ramp that we |
| 0:34.4 | at least had some time to acclimatized to. Then there's the breakups where |
| 0:40.6 | it's like our whole world gets upended because we just didn't see it coming at all. We, |
| 0:49.1 | there weren't signs or at least, you know, maybe we look back and we're like, well, I guess maybe that was a sign |
| 0:56.4 | that they were unhappy. Like, we kind of tried to make sense of it going backwards, but we had |
| 1:01.7 | no idea that that person was going to have a conversation with us that day saying they weren't |
| 1:09.1 | happy and that they're leaving. So I want to talk |
| 1:14.0 | about this particular kind of breakup for anyone out there who just feels they've had the rug |
| 1:18.5 | pulled out from underneath them and that they're not just in utter heartbreak. They find |
| 1:24.4 | themselves in this prolonged state of shock about suddenly finding themselves |
| 1:30.2 | in a new life and a new reality. Do these breakups tend to happen early, or do you think they can |
| 1:37.3 | happen at any time? There's obviously the kind of breakup that happens after three months, |
| 1:41.1 | where we thought someone was having a great time and we were having a great relationship with them and then all of a sudden they tell us they don't want to be with |
| 1:47.6 | us anymore and we're like wait what i thought we were on to something really good but i'm i'm also |
| 1:53.8 | and perhaps even more so talking about the relationships that last years and years, the marriages that, you know, go on for five, |
| 2:05.4 | 10, 15, 20 years, the ones that we had no idea they were that unhappy or that they had |
| 2:12.2 | been contemplating this. And, and then we're finding ourselves like our life as we know it because in three years your |
| 2:20.8 | life as you know it doesn't have time to change but in a decade it can be all you know anymore |
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