The Naked Truth | How to end a relationship that’s not working and gain closure, so you can both move on with your lives
- Heartbreak is one of the most unbearable feelings in life. However, you must have the courage to end a relationship if it’s just not working
- It’s important to grieve for a failed romance, but remind yourself why it ended and focus on your own well-being
They say that if you have never felt hurt, then you have never truly loved. That’s because one of the most unbearable feelings is heartbreak – and it can be debilitating. But, unfortunately, it is unavoidable.
Heartbreak is one of those things that you need to eventually confront at the end of a relationship that is well beyond repair. A break-up affects both parties in varying degrees and no one is immune to the pain that comes with it.
However, people sometimes don’t want to experience the pain or fear of being alone, so they do everything they can to delay the inevitable break-up. Or they hold onto a failing relationship out of obsession rather than love.
Don’t ignore the signs and red flags, and always listen to your inner self when it tells you that something is wrong. If you ignore these signs, then you are not only burying your feelings, you are surrendering your happiness for a relationship that no longer serves you and investing in a future that doesn’t exist.
Some fatal signs are too big to ignore when they unmistakably point to the end of the road for two people, says clinical counsellor Bhavna Bharvani.
One is a lack of willingness to try and make a relationship work, she says. “When one partner is not willing to try and make it work any more, then very little can be done to rebuild the relationship,” says Bharvani, who is affiliated with the California Association of Licensed Professional Clinical Counsellors.