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Petty Breakup Syndrome

It's easy to loose your cool on someone you once loved

by Nate Lovestruck

You once were deeply infatuated with one another, maybe even in love. Now all you can do is treat each other like dirt over your petty differences. The Petty Breakup Syndrome as I call it causes a lot more damage then you'd originally expect. The relationship may have been good, it may have been bad, but while it was going you both treated the other with some sort of respect. Now that it’s over, to overcompensate with past feelings, not knowing how to react to your ex partner, you break out an angry sassed attitude. As if to get over the hurt feelings and the residual love its much easier to be mean towards each other then to be loving. For if one of you is too loving things could get sticky, someone could misinterpret and could find themselves back in a relationship that had obviously ended for a reason.

Now as much as I’ve noticed this tactic is quite helpful for some people to get over their last relationship, I don’t believe it’s the right way to go. You were once probably quite good friends just because you were once sexually linked is that any reason to ruin the fine connection you both established. Why turn two years of good memories into garbage just because of how it ended. As much as we all seem to have problems getting over each other that's no reason to get petty. To remember the good times for what they were and forget the bad and move on. If for some reason you can't bare to be around each other, stay away, don't talk until the wounds have healed a bit. This is a much better solution then barraging each other with insults and explanation about something that no longer has the same meaning.

A friend is always better then an enemy. Life is different now, but that doesn't have to mean that it's bad. If you find your feelings for your ex to be far to mixed to ever be close friends again that is fine. Just try to go easy on the verbal harassments. Both of you are emotionally weaker then you'd like to admit and those cuts, cut deep. It’s much better to forgive and forget, maybe stay away for a while things cool off. In the end you’ll be happier having someone you can say hello to once in a while and joke about the past. Life is all about making connections, there's no point in burning bridges with people who once were a huge part of your life. Try it... You may like it...

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