Relationship Breakups: How to Survive the Brink of Crying


By DivorcePlus Staff Editor April 11, 2024

Key Points:

Crying is normal as well as inevitable; it’s just your mind and heart working towards recovery.

At the bottom of healing and moving forward from a relationship, there is a very difficult step of accepting your feelings.

The mourning period for losing one’s partner is like any other instance when anyone would grieve after experiencing significant loss in their lives.

You may be at a loss for words after a romance failed, and you may feel like crying all the time. The overpowering feelings always by your side. It feels like your heart is so heavy that every beat amplifies sadness and loss, which leads you to this edge. This might resonate with you. Find out why it makes sense to feel like this and start looking at ways of moving forward.

Emotional Avalanche on the Verge of Tears

Do you ever ask yourself, “Why do I always feel close to tears?” You can experience a flood of emotions when a relationship ends. Now it’s not only about losing life partner, but also disappearing dreams, routine and shared moments. This stage is normal as well as inevitable; it’s just your mind and heart working towards recovery.

An Emotional Journey

The emotional stability you once knew feels shattered now, leaving you open to a plethora of emotions such as sadness, anger , relief or confusion. Your mental aspect now finds itself in an elevated mood over this significant shift in life.

But regarding crying even 2 hours straight could appear alarming but under such timescales it is considered a norm because of considerable emotional stress experienced during them.” Crying is a means of therapy whereby one uses their body release for all inner turmoil and then work through it.

Heavy Heart Syndrome

This feeling shows intense emotional strain or sadness. It indicates a metaphorical condition where one carries internal weightiness on his/her chest. When one wants to cry due to such heaviness in his/her body shows that this person intends releasing heaviness within him/herself hence relieving emotionally.

Moving Past the Verge of Tears

Continually being on the verge of tears can be extremely tiring as well as incapacitating. Here are some strategies that can help you find balance again:

1-Diving Deeper Into Embracing Your Feelings

At the bottom of healing and moving forward from a relationship, there is a very difficult step of accepting your feelings. It doesn’t mean that your emotions should control you, but it means allowing yourself to feel them completely with no judgment or self-criticism. This is how you can embrace your feelings, and why it matters:

2-Recognize That You Have the Right to Feel

Always remember that whatever intense or confusing feelings you might have are normal. You have right to mourn, be angry, get confused as well as even occasionally heave sighs of relief. The end of any kind of relationship is a big event in life; and emotions experienced by an individual are an indication of how deep one has fallen into that hole. By acknowledging this fact, one can begin the journey towards personal recovery through self-compassion rather than self-blame.

3-Grant Yourself Permission To Mourn

The mourning period for losing one’s partner is like any other instance when anyone would grieve after experiencing significant loss in their lives; it involves various stages such as denial, anger, bargaining depression until acceptance occurs. The realization entails passing through some phases that may not necessarily go in order and also can take time.

4-Expressing Your Emotions

Let out your emotions elsewhere properly. This could involve writing in a diary; talking one-on-one with either confidant or professional counselor; painting or even writing creatively. Expression acts as an important tool during healing because it helps in letting go and enables individuals understand what they feel.

5-Avoid Rushing Through the Process

In today’s world which is characterized by fast pace people are often expected to get over emotional pain quickly although healing does not work within strict timelines. To embrace one’s feeling this therefore calls for sometime hence self-patience.

6-Learn something from your feelings

Although painful emotions may appear horrifyingly true, they can be enlightening when it comes to our personal needs, limits and goals. In fact while reflecting on feelings people have in terms of them myself it becomes possible finding out more about oneself as well as what one’s future relationships should be like. This is a very powerful introspection towards self-growth hence future relationship satisfaction.

7-Practicing Self-Compassion

Show yourself kindness. It means treating you the way you would treat your best friend if he or she was suffering from the same problems. Each and every time you are overwhelmed by emotions let yourself know that it is normal for a person to feel so and you are trying your level best with hard times.

8-Assist When Necessary

Sometimes feeling all these might be too much for me alone. Seek assistance now! Be it friends, family, support groups or life coaches , there always has to be someone who can listen and give advice through this emotional landscape.

Simply put, embracing one’s feelings involves allotting enough space and being patient enough to experience myriad of emotions culminating after any breakup end of relationship. This is about accepting your pain, understanding it and finally getting through with it altogether. This process does not aim at finding quick answers but rather entails healing that ensures wellness over period leading to a stronger person within you who cannot be easily broken again.

Light at the end of the tunnel

Remember that healing does not follow a straight line. Some days, your emotions feel lighter than feathers and on some others, you live only at the edge of tears. This is part of the process. The most important thing is to keep moving forward, even if it’s just a tiny step forward.

When facing the end of a relationship and all the mixed feelings that come with it, remember that what you are going through is normal for human beings. You’re not alone in feeling like sobbing will start at any moment, as if overwhelmed by emotions or burdened with a heavy heart. With time, support and deliberate self-care, tears will abate; emotional waves will stabilize and once again lead you to being peaceful and strong.

For those going through breakups, start with a free life or divorce coach consultation to help navigate through this difficult phase in their lives. Reaching out for support is a brave step toward healing and rediscovering your joy and resilience.

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