Breakup Survival Playlist #5: Seasonal Affective Disorder
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.”
Woody Allen
This is the hardest stage of surviving a breakup. And it’s also often the longest. You’ve done a good job getting back to the business of living your life, but the truth is you still miss him. You know it’s over, but you still don’t want it to be. You may even have reached the point of understanding that you deserve something better. But it just keeps hurting, day after day, and that sucks. You wonder if you will ever really get past it.
Just remember that you’re still making progress. It’s like that old saying, “It is always darkest before the dawn.” You are now in the Fifth Stage of relationship grief, only one left to go. Keep your friends close, take care of yourself, ask for help when you need it, and be thankful for the blessings you do have.
Here’s some music to put on Repeat. It’s a bit sad and melancholy, but that’s good. You are not ready to pump your fist in the air and go cruisin’ yet.
- Starlight, Muse
- Bleeding Love, Leona Lewis
- It Hurt So Bad, Susan Tedeschi
- This is How a Heart Breaks, Rob Thomas
- Turn on Me, The Shins
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’tve), The Buzzcocks
- Bend and Break, Keane
- Missing You, Alison Krauss and John Waite
- Cold as You, Taylor Swift
- Come Down in Time, Elton John
- Bent, Matchbox 20
- Lost Cause, Beck
- All Over You, The Spill Canvas
- Dressed to Kill, A New Found Glory
- Konstantine, Something Corporate
- With or Without You, U2
- Sparks, Coldplay
- Only One, Yellowcard
- Run, Snow Patrol
- No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley
- Tiny Vessels, Death Cab for Cutie
- I Can’t Make You, Bonnie Raitt
- Dressed to Kill, A New Found Glory
- King of Wishful Thinking, A New Found Glory
Next up is Breakup Survival Playlist #6. That’s the final one, for that time when you are ready to get back out there and be pure fabulousness.
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