Limit Your Sorrow

If this just doesn’t seem to work, set aside 15 or 30 minutes a day to allow yourself to be sad.  If you find yourself reminiscing during the day, tell yourself that it will just have to wait until your scheduled down time.  When this time arrives, allow yourself to feel the sadness that has been hounding you.  Feel it fully, but once your time is up, tell yourself that you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to be miserable again.  As the days pass, you’ll find yourself making less and less use of this time.  Eventually, you won’t even need it.

You can use your divorce as a stepping stone to a better life.  Yes, things have changed, but this is no excuse to give up on life.  You won’t always feel this devastated.  As time passes, you will feel the sting of your divorce less and less. In fact, the majority of people who divorce come to view it as a positive step in their lives.

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