Coping with a breakup can be extremely difficult and depressing, your heart feeling like it just got stomped on. But the end of a relationship can be even worse if the person who broke up with you does it in a way that's less than considerate. Be...
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Relationship Closure: Do We Need It or Is It Better To Let Things Go?
When it comes to breakups, are you one of those people who needs relationship closure in order to move on? Or is a clean break your style? In this week's Love Essentially column, published yesterday in Chicago Tribune Pioneer Press, I offer the...
Coping With Divorce: How to Turn “Our Place” into “My Place”
Of the many difficult aspects of coping with divorce (or the ending of a long-term relationship) are the places that the two of you went that were very special. Restaurants, bars, coffee houses, breakfast places, parks, museums, even vac...
Having Chest Pain After a Breakup? One Woman says “It’s Hard To Breathe”
It’s kind of ironic. You get divorced and you don’t think anything can be worse. Until…the heartbreak of your next relationship. The pain you are feeling can seriously feel physical. I have had chest pain after a breakup. And read this woman’...
How to End a Relationship on Good Terms with the Prince Turned Frog
When I got an email from a reader asking how to end a relationship on good terms, I immediately thought of the famous post it note that Berger gave Carrie on Sex and The City. that read "I'm sorry, I cant. Don't hate me." [CTA-Ad-Trusted] ...
