JUST PHILOSOPHING ON : SOME OF WHAT I HAVE LEARNT FROM LIFE! PART 9.
I have learntl that any 'normal' and/or empathetic person who have experienced breaking up - regardless of who initiated the ending - who is confronted with ending an intimate relationship. One in which they had invested a significant degree of their sense of being, their identities, will be confronted with powerful and potentially destructive emotions. I have learnt that these emotions are likely to be common to most, if not all persons who have experienced the break-up of a strong intimate relationship, whether it be a marital or non-marital one. I have learnt that these strong emotions are likely to include all or some of the following. Shock; anger, rage, denial, feelings of being hurt, unbelievability, self-destructive feelings, wanting to hurt the other person and/or others close to them, despair, self-pity. I have learnt that, although some of the negative and destructive feelings are or might be common to all or most people' experiencing the trauma associated w