Love Life with Matthew Hussey - How to Move On When Your Ex Finds Someone Else | Rewind

Episode Date: July 17, 2026

There's a particular kind of heartbreak that comes from seeing your ex move on before you have.It can leave you wondering what they saw in someone else that they didn't see in you, or whether they were always meant to end up with someone else in the first place.In this episode, Matthew answers a question from a live audience member who is trying to let go after the end of a five-year relationship. They talk about why it's so hard to move on when someone else seems to have done it so quickly, the role our ego plays in heartbreak, and one shift in perspective that can completely change the way we see the relationship we've lost.If you've been feeling stuck after a breakup or can't stop thinking about your ex moving on, this is an episode you'll want to hear.---▶▶ If you're healing from heartbreak and want more support, join me for my free, live 5 Days to Mend experience happening on July 20-25, 2026 MendWeek.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's your name? Roy. Hey Roy, how are you? Good, Matthew, thanks. I've had an ex talk about you a lot, so I thought I'd come check you out. So, yeah, that's... Well, thank you for being here. Yeah, yeah.

I enjoy everything you have to say, but I'm a man. So, I mean, I'm just trying to figure out what I can take from the male perspective. And also, how do I change the way that I... Like I'm very, I guess, reserved, and I dwell on my hurt because, I mean, we're people. But, like, I have a problem with my ex moved on fast, and I was trying to, it hurts, man. You know, it's like we were together for like five, six years. And when they move on fast, it makes you feel like you're not good enough. And I just want to know how can I change my way of thinking and that it was just,

they were waiting on me and I was waiting on them and they just decided to go one way. I mean, how do I change my perspective on letting stuff go? Because that's what I need to do. I need to let stuff go or I'm going to be unhappy for the rest of my life. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Roy, you're going through an incredible amount of hurt.

When was it? When did this happen? When did she move on? I guess we split up in August of 18. Yep. And I would say it was probably a good four months after. Yeah. So it's incredibly painful.

Part of the pain is you continuing to convince yourself that this must on some level have been the right person and that your right person is now with someone else. Now I don't believe that. I believe that the right person can only be the right person when it's two people choosing each other. So part of the pain we hold onto is believing still that we had this jewel that's gone. And as much as we may have loved someone,

as much as we may have thought someone was incredible, they may have had wonderful qualities, we may have been incredibly attracted to them, they may have been all these great things. They cannot represent that. that true dream relationship if they don't choose you. In fact, someone not choosing you is just about the biggest departure from your dream relationship you could ever imagine. So when we're saying, but we were so close, not being chosen by someone should be the greatest turnoff in the world.

Not because there's something wrong with that person, but because how? How on earth, when I was a kid and I dreamt about my dream relationship or in my, you know, last 10 years or 20 years before I met someone, when I was dreaming of my dream relationship, it couldn't have been the one where someone decides to go be with someone else. That wasn't it. So this isn't it. Then there's the ego, the ego element of someone chose someone else. Why not me? What did that person have? Why wasn't I good enough? And now we take the baggage of that forward. The greatest advice I ever received was kill your ego.

Because that motherfucker has no place in your growth. None. None. I box a lot. And when you go into the ring and you are worried about getting hurt, when you're worried about yourself, that's ego. When you're worried about the size of the other guy and this guy's skills and that's ego.

When you're worried about, I came in here to do a job, what's my job? Then ego goes out the window. And there are certain, we're all going to die many, many times in our life. We're all going to die. You just die it. A piece of you has to die.

Right now, you're going through fucking hell. It's been awful. someone ripped your heart out, that's hell. But I want that version of you that goes through hell and comes out and has something to say at the end of it. That's the version of you I want. Do I want the version of Roy who hasn't been through that shit? Nah, it's fucking boring. That's boring.

I don't want that, Roy. I want Roy who's been to hell and back. I want Roy who had to go, die, resurrect himself and then come tell the rest of us how to do that. I want that Roy. That Roy is interesting to me. I want weathered, scarred, Roy who's been through shit, who has interesting things to say. That, that Roy is much more interesting to me. And we learn far more, far, far more. We become far stronger by what goes wrong in our lives than what goes right. Far more. And so this, all this you're going through, this is just like, you know, like a great stew.

Like, it's just adding flavor. Like, it's just making you more and more interesting, more and more complex. It's going to make you more compassionate. It's going to make you kinder. It's going to make you more empathetic to other people. It's going to give you more to bring to your next relationship. It's going to make you such a strong person. And you get through this and you deal with this.

What the fuck do you have to be afraid of? I've died, motherfucker. You can't scare me. All right? You see that? So there's the ego element. Kill your ego. Kill that shit.

That guy has to die. So bigger me comes back. And then there's the morning because you think you've lost the person you're supposed to be with. I can promise you you haven't. Because unless someone chooses you, they ain't the person you're supposed to be with.

You could be disappointed. You can be disappointed. She wasn't the person. But you can't grieve like she was the person because she's not. Disappointment takes a minute to get over too, but it's much easier to get over than true grieving of, I've lost the love of my life. You didn't lose that.

That's still to come. Something better is coming for you. I promise you, my brother, I promise. Okay? Thank you so much for spending this time with me. I do not take it for granted. I also wanted to let you know another way that we can connect each week, because there is a private email that I send every Friday to those who have signed up for it. For me, it's a way that I can stay connected to all of you between episodes.

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