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How to Deal With Breakups

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From Quick Guide: Breakups: Coping 101

Summary: When dealing with a breakup, it is important to vent feelings on paper, have discussions with close friends and avoid contact with the other person for a while. Get through a breakup period with advice from a professional life coach in this free video on relationships and dating.

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Donna Barnes is a professional life coach, relationship expert, television host, columnist and producer, as well as the author of "It's All About You." Barnes has been attracting a lot...read more

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"Hi, I'm Donna Barnes, life and relationship coach here in New York City, and the author of It's All About You. To deal with break ups really doesn't have to be a big, horrible heartbreak. I think in the initial break up, then, yeah, you need to talk about it. Call your closest friends and hopefully they'll have a sympathetic ear and really get that off your chest. Or write them a letter. Write down everything, and use a pen to paper because your brain processes it differently when you physically write. And write out everything that you'd like to say to that person. If you're mad at them, anything at all that you got in your head that you want to get out. Write it all down, but do not send it to them. Put a do not contact policy for yourself. Get rid of their phone number. Don't use it at least. Don't email them. Don't text them. Do not, in any way, contact them at all. You have to remove that stimulus. And mostly, really just take care of yourself, you know. After...if it's a month later and you're still talking, your friends don't want to hear about that constantly and you shouldn't want to be talking about it. So you know, allow yourself a week or two to really grieve and get all that out of your system, and then tell yourself, "I'm done with this person. I'm washing my hands. I'm taking care of me, and I'm not going to think about that anymore.""

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