Category: Letting Go

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How Do You Cope With Confusion and Hurt When Your Husband Walked Out?

Coping With Confusion and Hurt When Your Husband Walks Out

Your husband walked out of your marriage – how do you cope with the confusion and hurt? Out of the blue he says he doesn’t want to be married anymore, and you’re left to pick up the pieces. I don’t have a magic want or the right words to make you feel better and help [...]

Sometimes You Can't Save Your Relationship From Failure

You Tried Everything, But Your Relationship Failed – Moving On

Health issues or family problems can destroy your love, no matter how strong it is. If you tried everything to save your relationship but it failed anyway, you may find hope and encouragement here. These tips are inspired by a reader’s question… “We’ve only been dating for six months, but I developed very strong feelings [...]

How to Stop Feeling Guilty After Breaking Up With Someone

How to Stop Feeling Guilty After Breaking Up With Someone

You broke up with someone you can’t be in a relationship with – and you feel guiltier than hell! Here are tips on how to stop feeling guilty over a breakup… On my article about healing from an addictive relationship, a reader says she feels so guilty about breaking up with her boyfriend of four [...]

Love is Never a Waste of Time...But Regret Is

How to Recover the Years You Wasted in a Relationship

You’ll never get back the years you “wasted” in a relationship – but you can recover things other than time! These tips on how to recover misspent years are inspired by a reader… “I feel like I’ve wasted the past three years of my life on hopes and plans for the future that are now [...]

How to Know if Your Relationship is Over – 9 Questions

How to Know if Your Relationship is Over – 9 Questions

Sometimes it’s easy to tell if a relationship should end; other times it’s confusing and unclear. These questions will help you know if your relationship is over. Read this comment from a reader – you may see your own relationship in her words: “My boyfriend and I have been together for a while, we have [...]

Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Press Charges – Secrets From Jail

Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Press Charges – Secrets From Jail

A new jailhouse research study reveals why women experiencing domestic violence don’t press charges against the men who abuse them. This is a fascinating study that reveals the abuser’s dirty, underhanded secrets for manipulating the women they abuse. “The existing belief is that victims recant [don’t press charges] because the perpetrator threatens her with more [...]

When You Can’t Stop Loving a Man Who Doesn’t Want You

When You Can’t Stop Loving a Man Who Doesn’t Want You

Painful words: I love him, but he doesn’t want me. What do you do when you can’t stop loving a man who doesn’t care? Here are a few tips for women and unrequited love… “Sometimes I fight with myself to not text him or call him,” says A. on My Husband Left Me for Another [...]

What to Do When Your Boyfriend Says He’ll Kill Himself If You Leave

What to Do When Your Boyfriend Says He’ll Kill Himself If You Leave

Here’s help for girlfriends whose boyfriends threaten to kill themselves if they leave or break off the relationship. Suicide is a terrible manipulative technique that emotionally disturbed people use to control others. Here’s what one wife says: “My husband and I have been married for five years,” says on How to Leave a Man Who [...]

Getting Over the Pain of an Unexpected Divorce – A Few Tips

Getting Over the Pain of an Unexpected Divorce – A Few Tips

These tips for getting over the pain of an unexpected divorce range from creating a ritual of closure to accepting that you did the best you could in your marriage. My favorite tip is to find ways to be kind, gentle, and good to yourself when your husband leaves without warning. This article is inspired [...]

When Guilt Keeps You in a Marriage That You Wish Was Over

When Guilt Keeps You in a Marriage That You Wish Was Over

If you have a bad case of “marriage guilt”, you’re not alone! Here are a few tips for wives who feel trapped – guilt keeps them in marriages they wish were over. These tips are inspired by two comments on an article I wrote about leaving a man you once loved: “My relationship was over [...]