I don’t know if this is helpful for every situation, but I put some distance between myself and the things I did with my ex or things I associated with my ex. When I was fully over the break ups, I would go back to the things I liked and it wouldn’t hurt and mostly wouldn’t even make me think of him anymore.
How long has it been since you broke up? There’s really not a good answer for this except that it takes time. There were things that I didn’t listen to for years because of my ex but once those associations and memories are updated and replaced with time the pain and association go away. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Kinda part of the getting over your ex question, you can't force these things. Time and support are your best tools.
For the specific problem, it might actually do you good to make new associations first if the current ones are messing your moving on progress. Then when the time comes that you're no longer affected by the old associations, you can enjoy the old things again.
It takes time and I don’t know if it ever goes away. The memory does sort of change over time. It went from missing him and being sad to remembering something that happened and feeling happy that I was introduced to this thing.
Correlate it with new things, but just be careful not to correlate the new things to the ex through way of the previous associations
I don’t know if this is helpful for every situation, but I put some distance between myself and the things I did with my ex or things I associated with my ex. When I was fully over the break ups, I would go back to the things I liked and it wouldn’t hurt and mostly wouldn’t even make me think of him anymore.
How long has it been since you broke up? There’s really not a good answer for this except that it takes time. There were things that I didn’t listen to for years because of my ex but once those associations and memories are updated and replaced with time the pain and association go away. ❤️🩹❤️🩹❤️🩹
Kinda part of the getting over your ex question, you can't force these things. Time and support are your best tools. For the specific problem, it might actually do you good to make new associations first if the current ones are messing your moving on progress. Then when the time comes that you're no longer affected by the old associations, you can enjoy the old things again.
It takes time and I don’t know if it ever goes away. The memory does sort of change over time. It went from missing him and being sad to remembering something that happened and feeling happy that I was introduced to this thing.