C1 – Advanced
Almost all of us has experienced loss. Especially during the teenage years, when young men and women start crushing on someone and have their first take on a relationship.
Read the article below to know about Julia’s dating experience and her suggestion of ending affairs.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201101/the-thoroughly-modern-guide-breakups
Discussion Questions:
- What did you think of Julia’s heartbreaking story?
- What can you say about her suggestions when it comes to ending a relationship?
- Share any bad experiences when it comes to dating.
2 replies on “A Guide to Breakups”
1. What did you think of Julia’s heartbreaking story?
Julia thought that with the man she had been dating and marriying later, she had finally found happiness and stability in her life. But once again love shows that it does not attend to reasons and desires and that love is as subjective as people. What is valid for one person is not valid for the rest.
Perhaps Julia had placed too many hopes after breaking a long-lasting marriage.
It is also true that the Doctor’s way of communicating the breakup was not the best decision. Sending an email to your partner telling him that you are breaking the marriage relationship is a cowardly act and shows little tact and humanity.
2. What can you say about her suggestions when it comes to ending a relationship?
The twelve rules that Julia proposes for a break to be clean are simply behaviors that each person should take into account when relating to others and even more when dealing with something as complicated as love and romantic relationships.
Being honest, acting with dignity and speaking face to face to people are things that should be logical behaviors regardless of the situation.
To all this, certain recommendations should be added later, such as avoiding beating yourself up for having separated from the person with whom you have shared a large part of your life, or not criticizing and demonizing your ex-partner..
3. Share any bad experiences when it comes to dating.
When I was a teenager, I spent a lot of time playing with a group of friends, including three girls. With one of them I began to get along well and talk a lot with her. We became good friends but I really noticed that I felt for her something more than friendship.
Finally one day I decided to ask her if she wanted to be my girlfriend, her response left me frozen: she only wanted me as a friend and if it was not going to be like this it would better to stop talking to each other.
In the end we kept seeing each other because we were in the same group of friends but everything was different.
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