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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy recipe for overcoming a broken heart
1. Exercise and eat right
2. Learn something new like a foreign language.
3. Travel
Aristus
(66,294 posts)5. Repeat until heart is mended.
Think healthy responses.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Laugh a lot.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)I agree 100%!
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Try to avoid the cheap stuff unless you want the massive hangover from hell!
Yavin4
(35,421 posts)It will make you sadder.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)Skittles
(153,113 posts)Helping others can do wonders for you.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)imo: we often forget our problems while we're helping others. I know I do.
grilled onions
(1,957 posts)While one could get angry thoughts,destructive thoughts or even have a pity party it will not improve one's frame of mind. But if you volunteer at a shelter, food pantry,read to seniors at nursing homes,walk dogs at a shelter etc you will realize how many out there have huge problems. Your volunteering may ease their trouble and take your mind off your own.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Or any critter.
Watch old movies.
Take a bath.
Eat ice cream.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Well maybe not cat part
kcass1954
(1,819 posts)It was wonderful!
Skittles
(153,113 posts)kcass1954
(1,819 posts)They have no idea what they're doing, but they can do it allllll night.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)takes me back, LOL
DFW
(54,302 posts)I passed, but always wondered if I had done the wrong thing
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,606 posts)Yavin4
(35,421 posts)Overcoming a broken heart means making your life better than what it was before. It's not about revenge.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,606 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)at least mostly so.
I disagree with the hook-up and tequila suggestions up thread, but to each their own.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)but I would agree that it's best to avoid them when dealing with a broken heart
politicat
(9,808 posts)If you like tinkering, then order a raspberry pi kit and go. If you like baking, make thirty pies and give them away. If your thing is stoner comedies, break out the Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar. If it's dancing or video games or hiking, get to it.
Absorbing activities are a form of loving oneself, and you're the only person you absolutely have to live with, so make sure you're a good companion to yourself. Doing what you love validates you.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)Sweet Freedom
(3,995 posts)It's really difficult to think of anything else when you are learning to dance because you have to concentrate on what you are doing. Plus, you meet new people, exercise and listen to music.