He's the perfect height. He has perfect hands. You love his sister. You love his scent. In your mind, he (or she!) is perfect, and everything about the person you loved is perfect by association. The ...

The internet is filled with advice on how to get over a breakup in 30 days or less. But for anyone who has experienced a truly profound heartbreak, that advice often feels hollow and unrealistic. It ...

“You Don't Know What You've Got 'Til It's Gone” People have great difficulty getting over lost relationships… even if they didn’t value those same relationships highly while they were in them.

Breaking up is hard. When we're in a relationship, we form an attachment bond with our relationship partner, and our attachment system is very powerful. It makes us want to be close to people we care ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Besides it feeling like a full-blown addiction, staying stuck on an ex can send even the most grounded person into a self-doubt ...

A 2023 study by researchers at the University of Washington examined the recovery period of individuals who experienced a single breakup. The study observed participants over a two-year period and ...

If the secret to a lasting relationship is good communication, then the secret to a lasting breakup is no communication. Hence the “no contact rule,” a post-breakup recovery strategy many experts ...

Getting over a breakup is never an easy thing, especially if you were the one who was dumped. We may tell ourselves that we’re over him, that we’re better off and that he’ll never find another woman ...

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Breakups are tough, and it can be hard to know just what comfort content to throw on after. Do you want to cope and cry? Do you want to say "screw you"? Do you want to forget it all and laugh? Have no ...

Country music has songs for every life situation, from celebrations to sorrow. But the genre especially has songs for someone who is going through a breakup. These three country songs from 2016 will ...

Let’s not beat around the bush: Breakups—and the whole trying-to-get-over-them thing—sucks. Besides it feeling like a full-blown addiction, staying stuck on an ex can send even the most grounded ...