6 Ways To Letting Go Of Someone You Love

Being in a relationship with someone you deeply love and then losing that person is truly heartbreaking. Whether you lost them through a breakup, illness, or a tragedy, letting go of someone you love will always be unbearable. No words adequately describe the pain. Maybe you can’t even imagine yourself ever healing and moving on.
But it’s possible.

And even if you don’t believe you can truly, if not fully, let go, you know you have to. Letting go of someone you love, no matter how painful, is necessary so you can get your life back on the right track.

# Know why you had to call it quits

It’s hard to let go when you don’t even know why you had to call it quits in the first place. Was it because of you? Was it because they fell out of love? Did you discover them cheating on you? Or has your love died a slow and painful death?

Knowing just why you parted ways makes it easier for you to accept reality. Use this reason to take off and face life on your own.

# Accept that you did your best

Relationships are hard work. Are you certain you did your best and have done nothing wrong to hurt the other party but things had to end the way they did? Then you have a better chance of accepting why things had to go the way they did. This gives you a better chance at letting go and moving on once you know you don’t have any regrets and loose ends.

# Accept there is nothing left for you to do

So your relationship may have been rocky for a long time. You tried everything to save the relationship. You quit your job, stopped seeing your friends, and bent over backwards just so you could pour all your energy into the dying embers of your love.

However, no matter how hard you try, relationships do end, and the sooner you accept that, the easier it is for you to let them go.

# It’s the best thing for you

Make it clear to yourself that some things are just not meant to be. You had to let go of someone you love, no matter how much you loved them. No matter how crazy painful it is right now, it’s still the best thing that ever happened to you.

And someday, it will all make sense. Keep this in mind so that the emotions and memories will not catch up with you and make you do something you’ll regret.

# Learn from it all

There’s no sense letting go of someone you love, going through all the pain, only to come back around and experience all the drama again. There’s always a lesson in the process. If you can’t get what you want in the relationship, at least you learned some precious lessons.

Just remember to learn not only from the bad, but from the good as well. This also prevents you from going back to the person or from getting into a similar relationship, both of which may end up tragically as well.

# Give yourself all the time you need

Nothing cures the pain you feel but time. However, there may be wounds so deep, it feels like they will never heal. You think you’ll feel that way forever. But give time a chance to wash over and bring healing.

If time can’t completely heal your heartache, then at least it can turn those painful, vivid memories into blurry renditions. You’ll be surprised that it doesn’t hurt as much anymore.