Agony Aunts to the forum – break up advice…

So at the beginning of April I met & totally fell for a girl, she was 14yrs younger than me at 24 (EDIT – I’m 38!). Did the usual & ignored the advice of my friends & consequently fell completely in love with her.
I thought the she was amazing, I’ve never felt the way I do about her with anyone else. Then a month ago, she dumped me. Out of the blue. Never saw it coming.
Since then I’m really struggling to get over her, after a couple of weeks I was feeling better, even went out on a couple of dates. Recently however I can feel myself slipping. My diet has turned to crap & I’m drinking too much, everyone says things get better in time, but for me it’s just getting harder, I struggle to stay focused at work & any time on my own I cannot shut off, just keep thinking of her.

Getting to the point where I’m feeling like I’m slowly going mad & really don’t know or can’t see how to get myself back onto an even keel & start moving on.

Any help appreciated!

Find big thing to focus on. Train for a big race next year. plan a big trip that invovles a break from work.

make some basic rules and keep to them
No drinking on a school night. No takeaways.

at the beginning of April

I say get a grip, get over it.

Ouch, I feel for you. I think most of us have been there and it’s truly awful. Sadly there is no fast track solution, just the usual platitudes including “time heals”.
However, just like a bereavement, time really does heal (mostly.)

Don’t listen to any MTFU bollocks, you’re clearly hurting. Talk to your friends and family – that’s what they’re there for.

Try and eat better, drink less and exercise more.
Visit friends, visit family, have a holiday, volunteer in an orphanage somewhere.

Good luck mate.

Sister. Failing that, mother.

(and basically what Minty says, it’ll be ‘rest in due course chap, you’re just suffering the rollercoaster bit)

Agree make some rules and find something that you can get really excited about and concentrate on. It will pass. Maybe do something new that you haven’t done before. It will pass

Thanks – the words of strangers have an oddly calming effect!

Make your life about so much more than romantic attachments. Then, when romance flies out of the window (as it often does) your ‘house’ remains not only liveable, but also attractive to any potential future co-habitees 😉

*Edit – as others say, time is a healer. And time spent doing is time spent healing.

everyone says things get better in time, but for me it’s just getting harder

Intially it will get worse before getting better, you should start to see an improvement after about 2 months, although depending on the intensty of your feelings it can take up to 2 years before you are completely over it and at the point where you wonder what you were thinking of – you will eventually reach that point, everyone does.

You can help yourself and speed up the process by not touching alcohol and getting out and socialising.

Exercise more is tricky, been going to the gym before work & riding after work 2-3 times a week…. Away for the weekend for the next 5 weeks (& have been for the last 3!)

Certainly keeping busy!! Just on the odd evening when I’m on my own I tend to wallow.

If you’re in this state one month on after being with her only two months, then you should probably seek some professional help.

Coke and hookers?

volunteer in an orphanage somewhere.

careful. hes already indicated a predilection for younger women!

Everything is better with coke and hookers, even coke and hookers.

It’s a shitty thing to happen, but it will get easier – most people will have been through it at some point & will testify to this – take your mind off it any way you can, however go easy on any mood altering self prescribed remedies – sitting mashed on the couch for a few weeks in the middle of a small mountain of beer cans & takeaway boxes probably won’t hurt but don’t make too much of a habit of that or it becomes just that…

Buy yourself a new bike, that’s a good start – you deserve it – then get onto one of these humping apps or whatever folk are doing with their spare time nowadays & sooner or later you’ll have forgotten all about that heartless bint whatever her name was.

Hope that helps.
J

she was 14yrs younger than me at 24

I would like to be the first to say, well done. That is a result. No wonder you are gutted

So at the beginning of April I met & totally fell for a girl, she was 14yrs younger than me at 24 (EDIT – I’m 38!). Did the usual & ignored the advice of my friends & consequently fell completely in love with her.
I thought the she was amazing, I’ve never felt the way I do about her with anyone else. Then a month ago, she dumped me. Out of the blue. Never saw it coming.
Since then I’m really struggling to get over her, after a couple of weeks I was feeling better, even went out on a couple of dates. Recently however I can feel myself slipping. My diet has turned to crap & I’m drinking too much, everyone says things get better in time, but for me it’s just getting harder, I struggle to stay focused at work & any time on my own I cannot shut off, just keep thinking of her.

So you knew her for barely 3 months, and she realised she had made a mistake with you and dumped you, and youre upset, lots of people are married and in long term relationships and the other partner , dies , or is killed how the hell will you ever cope with that, get out, get a life and be a man.

Time will heal. Promise

Now, the manly advice; she dumped you quickly, phew lucky escape; no house, joint accts all that shit, clean break, done. She doesn’t realise what she let go, her mistake. Blah blah blah

DO: go and do stuff, join clubs, meet interesting people (who no nothing about this) now is your chance to go and learn flamenco like you’ve always promised yourself. Above all else, go out and have fun with NEW people. The world is literally full of interesting people doing all sorts of stuff go join in their fun.

DONT: sit at home thinking about your ex (she’s not thinking about you, she’s getting on with her life) don’t drink, don’t eat shit, you’re just reinforcing her decision to leave you.

she was 14yrs younger than me at 24

Be honest, you just wanted to tell everyone, didn’t you.

Break-ups are shit, but this too will pass.

You could even meet a few people on here and go for a ride 🙂

I’m surprised no-one’s suggested hoofing her in the slats yet tbh…

Sooo, this new bike you’re getting?

He’s allowed coke and hookers though, right Nick?

They make everything better

38! Young man nowadays … 🙄

The question is did you bang her silly? i.e. test ride. 😛

You are probably not up to the standard of a celebrity sugar daddy she thought you were.

Edit: Two months! That is silly banging months! We do silly banging for the first 2 years then gradually reduce to normal rate of banging, then as we get older it becomes a part of routine exercise … 😮

Edit: Ahhh … thinking of it I have not been doing any banging at all for many years now … d’oh! 😯

Get out and have some fun.
Take a week off and Throw bikes and gear into the car.
Go visit some nice fun trail centres in Wales, bpw, van road jump tracks, etc.. Or equivalent off the cuff trip that appeals to your inner hooligan

She must have been amazing!! I calculate about 8 weeks relationship, listening to my kids now it seems to be about 12 weeks before you are an item these days and actually dating.
Seems to me this is the straw that broke the camels back, might be worth looking deeper and see what else is eating away at you, it is probably not this as within a month you`ve been dumped, devastated and still managed two other dates.
As for coke and hookers, people have probably spent longer with hookers!!
Commit to the memory bank and move on mate!!

lots of people are married and in long term relationships and the other partner , dies , or is killed how the hell will you ever cope with that

I haven’t experienced the death of a partner myself but I’ve heard it said that a relationship ending because your partner has found someone else can be harder to accept than if they had died. Death brings an obvious natural closure, however sad and devastating it might be, but your partner being alive but not wishing to be with you can apparently be worse. I can understand that.

Buy a VW T5 camper van, and a Wood burning stove. Do your research properly and come back and tell us all about it. That’ll take your mind off of it for a few months/years

Were you married/cohabiting before April? If so I’d guess you’re more adjusting to the end of that rather than the fling.

I haven’t experienced the death of a partner myself but I’ve heard it said that a relationship ending because your partner has found someone else can be harder to accept that if they had died. Death brings an obvious natural closure, however sad and devastating it might be, but your partner being alive but not wishing to be with can apparently be worse. I can understand that.

It is.

I think it would help with your recovery if you posted some photos of her. No need for soppy photos of the two of you. Just her. Neked

smithy echoes what I was thinking. You’re a proper grown-up, this can’t possibly be the first time you’ve been dumped in your life, the end of a two-month fling shouldn’t leave you in this state. This must have been the last straw amongst other stuff you’re unhappy about generally.

I can relate to feeling as if your going mad after just such a break up, although it took about 18 months of craziness before the dump happened. My advice, and they may sound weird, if your sitting at night and cant sleep and feel like your going nuts, go out and drive around, it seems to calm you down. Also, go to a 24 hour supermarket and just wander. They are actually designed to make people feel at ease and it does work 🙂

Also, as above, get to the gym, out on the bike s much as possible

go to a 24 hour supermarket

That’s ******* gold.

(no offense intended)

she was 14yrs younger than me at 24 (EDIT – I’m 38!)

I’m just disappointed that you had so little faith in our arithmetical skills, you had to go back and add 14 to 24.

It wasn’t meant to be, so go find someone else

Try fitness singles,…you may well find someone who is fit, likely to have the same interests, has probably gone through similar,….and stop drinking in the week – it doesn’t solve anything.

If you’ve got a load of cash, find someone abroad, go meet them, have a great time, and however it ends up, never regret it…and yep the beach photos were real. 8)

or, as Binners suggests, coke and hookers, I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

Is she fit? If so, do you still have her mobile number?..

I’m just disappointed that you had so little faith in our arithmetical skills, you had to go back and add 14 to 24.

It’s more that when I re-read the statement, it could’ve been read as I’m 24, & her 14 yrs younger!!! 😯

Thanks for all the advice n tings, like I said I feel for proper, not my usual style. She’s was either genuine in the things she said or very manipulative. Last night I felt awful, this afternoon too, but having posted on here, you lot have cheered me up.
Off up to Wales at the weekend with some mates & got the first week of August off, so road trip time!