Are you going through a bad breakup? Or maybe you had a significant other a while back, but you still aren’t quite over him? Do you find yourself relating to Gotye’s “Somebody that I Used to Know?”

If you answered yes to any of the above, then please keep reading. If you answered no, then please keep reading- it could happen to you eventually.

I am a victim of a bad breakup myself. My story was made for a soap opera: he was a player, I kept coming back to him, I didn’t know about his two girlfriends…the drama went on and on.

So I made this list. I am relating it to my women readers, just because I don’t really know what men do when they break up with someone. Men readers: is it the same?

Eat lots of ice cream to make you feel better. It's good for you!

Eat with your feelings!  Lots of ice cream will definitely help you get over him.

How to really get over someone . . . said no one ever. 

  • Text him every once in a while.  Simply say “Hey.” Just to be friendly. You know, keep in touch.
  • Say you can stay ‘friends.’  If the man is a jerk, then he will only use and abuse that so-called friendship. Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile!
  • Stay friends on Facebook.  As much as you tell yourself it won’t bother you, it will. When you see that he has moved on, is missing you desperately, or has had a complete lifestyle change, it will bother you.
  • Keep the sweatshirt he loaned you. Of course you understand that it is ‘on loan,’ but it has that familiar smell of his cologne (you have never, ever washed it for this reason). Plus it’s more comfortable than any More