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Is It Normal To Be Happy When Your Friend Goes Through A Breakup?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Abby USED to feel like an a*hole when she felt happy about her friend's breakups...but should she? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're on the virtue.

0:03.6

So maybe you're feeling some guilt because you're just maybe a little bit happy or maybe

0:09.5

a lot happy that your friend got dumped.

0:12.8

Well, yes.

0:13.8

My friends going through a breakup and when she called me up to tell me, instead of being

0:17.1

like, oh my god, I'm so sad, my knee jerk reaction was, yes, what did I like to do

0:23.7

to her?

0:24.7

No, it's, I mean, the thing is with this particular relationship and I tell my

0:29.9

friends this over and over, I will be as excited about the guy as you are, if not more.

0:35.9

And so when my friends are dating guys that they're just kind of dating for the sake of

0:39.9

dating, they just don't want to be alone or maybe it's just kind of fun to have somebody

0:43.2

around.

0:44.2

I'm just not going to get super invested because I know you've literally told me this

0:47.4

guy is here for a short time, not a long time.

0:49.6

And so that was the case with this particular relationship.

0:52.5

But then I was kind of doing a little bit of a backtrack of like, ah, yes, I have responded

0:57.0

this way every single time I have found out my friends are going through a breakup.

1:01.3

Now obviously, like if it's something really traumatic and like sad, I have the emotional

1:05.6

capacity sometimes to, to be able to like hold their hand through this and not be like

1:10.0

a total a whole, but like deep down, I've always found myself being really happy and excited

1:16.3

for when their relationships have come to an end.

1:19.3

And I've been kind of doing like this deep dive as to why that is and my bitter that I'm

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