What Emotions can Breakups, Separation & Divorce Trigger?
Below are some of the reactions and situations that the ending of a relationship can bring about:
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Trauma
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Negative physical reactions
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Grief
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Confusion
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Rollercoaster of emotions
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Guilt
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Rejection
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Overwhelm
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Powerlessness
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Anxiety and / or Depression
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Therapy for Relationship Breakups & Coping with Separation
Although you may not feel that anything positive could come from the breakdown of a relationship you can recover and even come back stronger after you have processed what has actually happened.
Reflecting on your experience can make you understand your behaviour better and leave you more positive about your future and new relationships. By working through your emotions following the breakup, therapy can support you towards a happier and more positive future.
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Why is therapy useful in relation to family issues?
Therapy for family issues and relationships is a space where you can come, on your own, and discuss openly and confidentially the scenarios you are experiencing at home and how you feel about them.
It can help to relieve the symptoms that you are experiencing, to gain insight and understanding into your family relationship issues. You can examine thoughts and behaviours and work through confusing and painful times either in the present or in the past. The impact your family is having on you and the range of emotions your feeling are all okay and can be addressed, can be challenged, changed and resolved.
Therapy For Relationship Breakups & Coping with Separation
No matter what the nature of a relationship, be it partnership, marriage, civil partnership or simply your significant other, it is never an easy situation when you are facing a breakup, separation or divorce.
Whatever the reasons for the breakdown, the range of emotions you experience can be powerful and therefore the situation can feel overwhelming and difficult to cope with. The ending of the relationship can also start to feel as though your whole world is ending.