Top tips for getting over a break up

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Go on, I know you'll have loads!!

ben and jerrys

Trusted girlfriends and chocolate. A new dress always works wonders for me too!

Sex and the City boxset too. I've had a lot of experience with this!!

New shoes and handbag and pedicure/manicure

deleting all their contacts from you phone ,email, any numbers.

its not good to do that drunken call thing to an ex.

oh and go out with the girls. get all glammed up. new clothes(make sure the undies are new too), whole new you, and go and get sloshed in then. get loads of pics of it too. and replace any pics of ex with these ones where you are actually smiling. compared to grumpy face in pics of you with ex

and make sure to block them on facebook, twitter or any other social networking thing. He doesn't need to know what you're up to, and you'll be better off not seeing what he's up to.

I cannot stop crying, it is not attractive!

Find a rebound. Its the only way.

Ceasing all communication. Honestly.

Also, reading books that have nothing to do with romance. Harlan Coben, Lynwood Barclay. They wouldn't be my normal type of book but I devoured that kind of book when I was not fit to think about romance...

Just making yourself do something. All the little things you've been meaning to do. Make a list of them and write them into your diary and try to cross them out.

Mine were simple goals. But I've achieved a good few of the things on my list.

Distraction and keeping busy. Definitely agree with blocking them on Facebook too.

It's difficult when you have children together though isn't it? You can't cease all contact.

It's also difficult when you're pregnant beacuse you can't go out and have a good drink and a smoke. (I only smoke in times of stress but can't because I'm pregnant )

What can I do?

I'm coping really well during the day but no matter what I can't sleep at night for re-running over things in my head. It's like I can't switch my brain off.

IF you like either horror, sci fi or crime, get some really good books (these rarely feature any lurrrve slop, unlike chicklit).
My own personal tip is watching Day Of The Dead, which always cheers me up - no matter how bad things are, I am not trapped in an underground bunker with deranged squaddies while ravenous zombies prowl outside.... However I appreciate this won't work for everyone.

agree with cutting all contact and deleting details as well as not seeing him at all if possible. as well as keeping busy (I painted my hall, did extra hours at work) and lots of good books.

i also advise having a good cry to get it out of your system - i do find this helps more than trying to be 'strong' and keep it all in.

my heart got broken 5 months ago now and i ain't doing that bad. i even bumped into the ex for the first time y'day and other than the shock of seeing him (saw him before he saw me) which made me feel a bit shaky -when i spoke to him i didn't really feel anything and it hasn't knocked me for six or upset me as I thought it would.

also agree with the getting dolled up and going out on the lash with your best mates and having a laugh - make some new happy memories that don't involve him.

watching SATC after a break up would make me suicidal i think.

avoid romantic slush or plots which revolve around boy meets girl at ALL costs.

Have been out on the prowl and it wasn't so bad!

But, other than coming on here and working, i'm not sure what else I feel like doing!

Not eating, that's gone belly up. Not eating much at all. Feel sick when I do so i'm avoiding it.

Supercherry, sounds like your situation is def def def more difficult than mine.

How are you today?

hanging out with your beautiful male friends