6 Ideas That Will Help You Get Over the Divorce
„Coupling conscious”, something like „conscious disconnection” in Spanish. That’s how Gwyneth Paltrow referred to her breakup with Coldplay’s British band leader, Chris Martin, in the statement she posted on Goop’s personal blog , after more than ten years together and two children in common.
The actress came to confirm two problems with this eccentric semantic construction. On the one hand, that each person is better confronted with the reality of a divorce. On the other hand, there is a vast range of euphemisms available to all those couples who refuse to call this situation painful by its name.
Divorce, like life, does not include an instruction manual that lists the steps to follow in each circumstance; therefore, one cannot speak of a magic recipe to overcome it. However, as clinical psychologist Silvia Russek points out, in any painful situation, including romantic separation, there are two possible attitudes that a person can choose. This first decision will have a transcendental impact on the future of the process after the breakup.
Divorce involves sudden changes in the rhythm of life and requires a new reorganization of life . Thus, the opt for the second route exposed by Russek, that of not waiting for the changes to occur by themselves, will mean that, gradually and through effort, the feelings of…
