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There’s this funny thing that happens a month of two after a breakup: you look back and you realize that it was over long before it was officially over. While you were still technically together, your vision was cloudy. You were so deep in the emotional throws of the fights and discontent that you couldn’t even see the fact that you had walked away from a happy relationship long ago, and you were just technically still “in a relationship.” But it was just a matter of changing the label at that point: the contents of that relationship were, irreversibly and indisputably broken. There is just a point of no return towards the end there. Of course, you only realize how much time you wasted on a relationship that could not be resuscitated once you’re fully out. Here are the final stages of realizing a relationship is over.
You mostly talk about the relationship
Your conversations with your partner are primarily about the relationship. If it were, say, a bicycle, it is no condition to be used and enjoyed. Right now, it’s in maintenance mode. All attention to the relationship is spent on trying to fix it and pick of the pieces that seem to be falling off at a rapid rate.
