How To Cope With Being Alone Again
May 9, 2011 
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Cope With Being Alone Again
When you have been in a significant and long term relationship it can be quite a shock to your system to find you have to cope with being alone again after the relationship has ended. Suddenly you find yourself looking at a different world. No longer is everything Us and We. Now you have to view the world from the ‘I’ perspective and that can be tough at first.
The Couple Thing No Longer Applies
alone again with a broken heart
When you are in a relationship it becomes second nature to think about everything you do as being a couple thing. Wherever you go and whatever you do is all about the two of you. Talking to friends it is ‘We’ this and ‘We’ that but finding yourself alone again and thinking just about yourself feels very strange. There is a phrase, ‘Separation anxiety’ that applies to many of us when we find ourselves having to cope with being alone. It is scary and we feel a little lost and confused. It is a perfectly normal reaction to this new situation you find yourself in.
Being Alone Means No More Arguments About What To Watch On TV
There can be some positive aspects that help you cope with being alone again. No longer do you have to argue over what TV shoes to watch. If you want to watch football all evening you can or if a weepy romantic comedy is your thing you can watch it without anyone telling you it is boring. Your life is your own to do with as you please. Enjoy the freedom this gives you.
Desperately Missing That Special Person
The trouble is you probably don’t care about having nobody to stop you doing what you want to do. What you desperately miss is having that person to share everything with you. If it is all finally over there is not a lot can be gained from looking backwards. Yes, it is natural to do so. You will be asking yourself why and how it all went wrong but unfortunately it did go wrong and the past is now just the past. You must move on.
Moving On To Single Life Is Hard
Moving on is hard to do when all your thoughts are on what you had in your relationship. We all spend hours worrying and wondering about the past. How could we have been so misunderstood? Why didn’t my partner see how much I cared and what did I do wrong?
It is easy to become overwhelmed with negative thoughts about your relationship breakdown but to be honest, nothing will be gained by spending all your time worrying about it. You are grieving for something you have lost but accepting it is over will help you move on. Time is the great healer and time helps us accept but making a positive move to try to accpet things are as they are will help you cope with being alone.
Understanding The Past Helps But You Must Look Forwards
Understanding what went wrong in your relationship might help you in a future relationship. If you discover things that you could have done better or differently that might be useful in the future but you must stop worrying about the fact that it is over if you want to feel better.
Acceptance
Acceptance can bring great relief. Accepting that you are where you are, whether you like it or not can reduce the pain enormously. It doesn’t make everything alright. It doesn’t mean that you like the new situation and you may always have regrets about what you lost but by accepting and forgiving, you will allow yourself to be happy. The reverse of this is to continue worrying about the past and somehow thinking you can change it. You can’t. You can make changes in the future but trying to change the past will only make you sad.
Moving On To Help Cope With Being Alone
Moving on from a failed relationship doesn’t have to mean dating new people or finding a new partner. Moving on means you get on with your new life in a new chapter titled ‘Being Single Again’. You want to cope with being alone but it could be the best chapter of your life is right in front of you. Remember the saying, “When one door closes another one opens.” You might discover new opportunities and people you would never have found if you had continued on the path of your previous life. This new chapter is an opportunity for a better and more rewarding future.
Being Single Is Not All Bad
Single life may not be what you want. Most of us feel the need to have a significant other to share life’s ups and down with but that can all come later. For now you must learn to accept that the past has gone and the ebb and flow of life means that now you are single again and you need to learn once again how to enjoy life as a single person.
Single life Brings New Opportunities
There is no way we will ever know where your previous life and relationship might have taken you to in the future. It might have been wonderful but it could also have turned out to be a disaster over time. We just don’t know. What we do know is that we now find ourselves single again and that can seem a little scary when we have been used to doing couple things and sharing everything with our significant other. But, being single is not the end of everything.
A Thousand People And Places To Discover
Yes, being alone is a huge change for us to accept and yes, life will be different in the future but it is a future full of possibilities. Who knows what is waiting around the corner. Try to accept things as they are. You are now single again but you can cope with being alone. There are a thousand new people, places and things out there to discover. Accept the past and don’t look back. The world is a blank canvas of opportunities so start moving forwards to your future.
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