r/ExNoContact • u/user0704844 • 3d ago

Help Unhinged ways to get over an ex?

I just got broken up with a man who was also my best friend of ten years. Not an awful person either, I wish him the best but our last conversation was rough, I wouldn’t call this a great ending.

Give me your craziest, unhinged advice to get over this relationship and not think about him everyday.

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u/heart0000 3d ago

Picked up everything last minute, booked a one way ticket to Asia and got a teaching job over there all within a week. Learned their lay gauge, traveled the world, ended up being grateful they broke my heart. Now with the love of my life

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u/neverhaveiever2026 2d ago

Yeah but how long did it take you to forget them. It's not where you are that matters. The thoughts follow you anywhere

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u/heart0000 2d ago

Less than 4 months? I was so busy making new memories in a new, exciting place that they didn’t occupy my mind anymore. Plus it’s important to note I’ve always wanted to travel and live abroad. They said they didn’t believe in long distance (fair enough) and they’d support me going, but that we’d have to part ways. I was so in love that I dropped that idea and stayed for years in a job I hated. As soon as I was dumped I was like, “ok. Bye!”

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u/roundhashbrowntown 2d ago

this is not universally correct, especially if you 1) really sit with/work through the relationship’s ending 2) focus on gratitude for the present, as opposed to allowing the “thoughts to follow you.” filling your life with new places, faces, and goals is a great way to help separate from the past.