relationships | Getting Past Your Breakup

Respect Me or Get Out: Torch Song Trilogy

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 19, 2019 | accepting, boundaries, crazy making, dysfunctional family systems, emotional pain, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, relationships, standards, Torch Song Trilogy

A perennial favorite on the blog and requested repost: I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and I was pretty tortured and depressed at the time. I had just ended my marriage and was wrestling with my relationship with my adoptive family. I remember...

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Is It Grief or Obsession? 7 Ways to Deal with Difficult Thoughts After a Breakup

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 18, 2019 | breakup, cognitive-behavioral, crazy making, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, grief, jealousy, journaling, memories, mind control, obsession, relationships, replaced

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author: Getting Past Your Breakup: How To Turn A Devastating Loss Into The Best Thing That Ever Happened To You (Hachette Book Group 2009)Getting Back Out There: Secrets to Successful Dating and Finding Real Love After the Big Breakup...

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Grief is A Spiral: Recycle Happens

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 14, 2019 | featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, grief, recycle, relationships

Backstory to this post: I am republishing this for someone in the Facebook group recycling on the ex’s birthday, which – as you read down below – is very normal.I have been researching grief for 25 years. All of my academic theses, including my law...

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I’m Going To Stay Here And Torture You

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 9, 2019 | abuse, abuser's remorse, abusive relationships, affirmations, anger, cheating, divorce, domestic violence, dysfunctional family systems, featured, infidelity, mind control, relationships, revenge

Backstory to this post: Someone emailed the Mean Lady Talking podcast to say they heard me say “Take the V off your forehead” on a podcast. I didn’t remember saying that recently, but it IS a saying of mine. It was said to me when I started this...

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Transformation

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 6, 2019 | abuse, abusive relationships, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, hopelessness, relationships, transformation

Backstory to this post: The first time I posted this – the sad story of the A&W Root Beer lady and me….was over 10 years ago. It was about a month into Michael’s illness and I was struggling to remain grateful as I saw my life and my love...

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Being the Identified Patient or Scapegoat

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Jul 15, 2019 | abuse, abusive relationships, dysfunctional family systems, family systems, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, healthy relationships, hope, identified patient, relationships, scapegoat, violence

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. Author, Attorney, Podcaster, Media Commentator, Motivational Speaker, Blogger, and Creator of the World's Most Successful Breakup Program. For more information about becoming happy, healthy and whole after a breakup, visit Program...