While some breakups are easier to move past, others are harder to recover from. After all, the loss of the ex may be deeper in your subconscious than you may realize. You may not even realize how this hurdle is affecting new relationships, but there are plenty of ways not being over an ex can manifest when you're seeing someone new. While there is definitely no one-size-fits-all formula to getting over an ex , there are questions you can ask a therapist that will help, according to therapists themselves. Below are 13 questions to ask a therapist to help you move on. Sometimes, the past may haunt you — as much as you may not want unhealthy patterns of behavior to repeat themselves from relationship to relationship, they still do, based on your subconscious and how you were raised. For instance, you may choose partners who are carbon copies of an emotionally unavailable parent.

Elizabeth Taylor rightly quipped about a break up, Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together. Break-ups are hard. Especially if you are the one being dumped! There are many ways to handle a break up; some hilarious, others disturbing and very few that are practical.

Maybe it came out of nowhere and hit you like a ton of bricks, or, perhaps, you feared the day would come but tried to avoid the conversation. Breakups are usually one-sided—one person walks off into the horizon while the other is left confused, angry, and sad. At this point, pretty much anything feels better than the pain you are feeling. So, go ahead and block the person from all of your social media, delete them from your contacts on your cell phone, and rip up all of those heartfelt letters where you still reigned supreme.