To ask for your best tips to overcome heartbreak

[NatVoll]

I just ended a short-term relationship, so I rationally appreciate it is not the end of the world and that I will be fine. We wanted different things, he wasn't the right man for me and yada yada. However I really liked the guy, and I am a bit sad at the idea that I will never see him again.

Please wise mumsnetters, share with me your best tips about how to overcome low-level heartbreak and get over the disappointment!

with a friend, over some pizza and ice cream (or other favourite junk food), at home. A walk every other morning, preferably through a park or beach, for a couple of weeks. Start a new non-romance book - well written detective type novels are my personal preference, but other genres could work. Book a short trip somewhere you've never been before but that has lots of places that can be realistically explored in a short time frame, so you can occupy yourself with travel research for a good few days beforehand + gives you something to look forward to.

Everything said above!
I also found watching a non-romantic comedy series helped

Implement the no contact rule immediately. It’s horrible but “how are you doing” emails or checking his Facebook will just prolong it.

Your new anthem is the sugababes (sorry!):

“Seven hours since you closed the door
Started a diet, got a manicure
Erased your number from my telephone
And if you call me I won’t be at home”

More seriously, make yourself a playlist of songs that make you happy and blast it when you’re in the car/out for a walk/at the gym etc. Music definitely helps!

Be kind to yourself. Lots of treats (whatever that means to you - spa, nails etc if you like that sort of thing). Lots of watching TV and films with people you find attractive in (to get your brain thinking about other men). And erm, time...

Which rag are you from then?

‘bit sad’?

Ok, you don’t have heart ‘break’. That’s just a stoopid idea our culture sells people. Nothing broke, you are just as whole, as fine, as strong and fabulous as you were before. Heart ‘ache’ maybe. And mildly.

Heart mosquito bite? Swab with alcohol, and get on with your great life. Just cos it didn’t work out, doesn’t make it (or you) some kind of failure. Enjoy the good memories, enjoy your free time, and look forward to life’s next romantic adventure!

Get a hair cut!

Go no contact. Immediately. Maybe you will be friends in the future, maybe not. Definitely not now or for a good long while.

Get your hair cut and nails done. Book a trip or something to look forward to with a close friend or family member.

Eat healthily and do some exercise every day.

Definitely occupy yourself with things to look forward to. Book a lovely holiday sometime in the future. Short term go and have short stays with people you haven't seen for ages. Weekends arw the woratnas they tend ro be a bit couply. Arrange a girls night out or in. Do small things, a market you've been wanting to go, a film or an exhibition. Book one of those one day courses. Go see some family. Offer to babysit for stressed friends. Keep busy.

Don't call him, text him etc. The pressure 'to stay friends' is so unrealistic, fine if its run its course and it was mutual but doesn't work if one side is heartbroken and reading everything into perhaps this is a sign we'll get back together.