Love Life with Matthew Hussey - (Matt Monday): Why They Weren’t “THE ONE"

Episode Date: February 26, 2024

Why does the end of a passionate short-term romance sometimes feel more devastating than a longer-term relationship? It’s because short-term romances are like fireworks—explosive and exciting—only to fizzle out soon after. We get addicted to the feeling of intensity they give us, and feel empty when they disappear. In today’s episode, I’ll show you the best way to move on from a short-term romance and stop obsessing over “the person who got away.” ►► Access My Happiness After heartbreak Series for FREE by Pre-Ordering Your Copy of Love Life Now at. . . → http://www.HeartbreakSeries.com ►► Pre-Order My New Book, "Love Life" at → http://www.LoveLifeBook.com ►► FREE Video Training: “Dating With Results” → http://www.DatingWithResults.com

She hadn't felt this deeply, she hadn't felt this seen. Those sparks that she felt with this person are something that she thought, this has to be special. so yesterday i did a session with my love life club members and there was a particular story that spoke to me that i wanted to share with you this person had been seeing a guy for two months and it had been this incredible romance over that time. It started in a difficult place because this person said that they wanted to be alone at this point in their life but when they started to actually spend some time together he started to come around and started to say I really like you, they started to have an amazing time together and in these two months, the attraction, the connection, the chemistry, dare I say, the love became very, very intense.

At the end of those two months, this person that she had met that had always planned to go traveling left to go traveling. And in the process, she had hoped that maybe it would become a long distance relationship. Maybe she could go with him for part of it. But in her mind, there was no way that this incredible thing that had been happening for two months would not go on. This is too good. We have something too special here. And after all of the things that he had said and the ways that he had showed up, the way that he'd been vulnerable over those two months, the ways he'd opened up. After everything he had done, she assumed that he must feel the same way. Instead, what happened at the end of these two months is that he said, I'm going to go traveling. And he said to her very soon afterwards, I've

realized I really do want to be on my own. And the state that she was talking to me in was one of being truly devastated. And as I was talking to her, she was extremely upset and teary. And talking from that place that we all talk from in that moment, which is one of complete confusion and bewilderment that someone who's been having the same experience we have, or at least we feel like they've been having the same experience we have, could not want to see where that goes, could not want to carry that on. How, after everything we've just done,

all the ways we've connected emotionally, how after how great this has been, how much you see me and I see you and all of these wonderful moments of connection we've had, this spark that we both haven't felt in a very long time how could you give this up anyone who's been through a situation like this knows that heartbreak is very very specific to the person that it's happening to. I did an interview recently with the number one expert in the world on grief, David Kessler. And when I sat with him and he told me every broken heart is that person's

broken heart. It's not a broken mind. If it were a broken mind, then we could start comparing logically to someone else's breakup. Well, I've been having this two month relationship with someone, but you know, it's not as bad as someone who's been with someone for two years or 20 years. And that logic would help us, but it's not a broken mind. It's a broken heart. And so our broken heart is our broken heart. It didn't matter that this woman had known and been through this intense situation for this man for only two months. Her heartbreak was extremely real to her.

And if you've ever been in that situation yourself where there's someone that you got broken hearted over, who you only knew for a short space of time, leave me a comment. Let me know know what was your situation. How long was it? Did it surprise you? Was it shocking to you that you could be that brokenhearted over something that was so short-lived? For some of you, you've been brokenhearted over someone that you didn't even really date. You know, my brother Stephen once wrote a piece

called How to Get Over Someone You Never Dated, which is so relatable. We hear that and we go, oh my God, I relate to that. Because most people have been in a situation in their lives where someone really hurt you and you can't even speak to a history with that person. But something about it, it hit you on a deep level. Why does this stuff hit us on such a deep level? Especially if it's short-lived. In this woman's case, it represented something that she had been looking for for a very long time.

And maybe you can relate to this. She hadn't felt a connection with someone in years. She hadn't felt this deeply. She hadn't felt this seen. Those sparks that she felt with this person is something that she thought, this has to be special. I haven't felt this in years. And maybe she's never felt that on that level.

So the intensity of the feeling made it feel profoundly important, profoundly special. Now, what I wanted her to understand and what I'd love everyone out there to understand is that there's a big difference. Here's an example I want to give you to help with this. I want you to think of fireworks. We often use that word in a relationship that was hard to get over, especially one that felt really, really intense in the beginning, don't we? We say, just the fireworks were amazing. I had such fireworks with this person. We often describe that as the thing that's missing when we don't feel something, right? There was no fireworks. Most of us feel like fireworks are special,

right? Why is it universal that on New Year's, we all watch fireworks? Or when there's a big show somewhere, there's often fireworks. It's because there's just something universally dazzling about fireworks. They arrest our attention in that moment. They feel special. We hold someone's hand next to us and we look at those fireworks and it feels incredible. We're having a moment. Look at this. Isn't this amazing? But in order for fireworks to be special, they have to have two things. They have to have nighttime so that they really light up and they have to be over soon. If you take away either of those two things, if fireworks happened in the daytime and they never ended, I guarantee you

it would only be a matter of time before you were looking at your watch wondering when they were going to be over. So fireworks are special because of when they happen and because they have an end point. And I often think about short-lived intense relationships that way. There are so many relationships that we never get over because they never stopped being fireworks. When we were in it, it was intense. Even people who have affairs, it's like that, right? A lot of affairs feel really exciting to people because I'm just living in the fireworks. The same is true of the person that we met on a holiday romance. And we were there for two weeks and we had this incredible holiday romance with them. And we went home and people look back and they go, God, if I could just find someone.

It was so sad that they had to go back to their country and I had to go back to my country because that is what I'm looking for. What I had with that person is what I'm looking for. What I had with that person is what I'm looking for. We can't compare the fast twitch attraction of a holiday romance to what we've ever had with anybody in a relationship. No one you've ever had a real relationship with should get compared to the person that once upon a time you had a holiday romance with, or a four-week fling with, or even a two-month relationship with. Because those things are still fireworks. We tell ourselves in these experiences that we were getting everything we need, but we're blinded by that experience to the thing that we haven't got out of this, which is the thing that we ultimately want, which is a real partnership, a real relationship, something that is going to last. Isn't that fundamental? Think about it. When you think

about your dream relationship, when you think about the thing you've always wanted, isn't it someone that you can look at and go, we're in this together. It's you and me. Where two people have shown up for each other every day in the exciting moments and the boring moments. Where two people have successfully been able to collide and come through it over and over and over again. Where two people have sacrificed for each other, compromised for each other, made space for each other. Not just been excited by the commonalities, but made space and even found pleasure in the differences. On New Year's Day, when you wake up in the morning, you wake up into your life. Now, you may have been watching the fireworks

the night before, but when those fireworks are over, you go back to life. What life do you wake up to when the fireworks are over on New Year's Eve? What day or what year do you wake up into? What's ahead of you? That's your life. None of us think that the fireworks are our life.

We know that the next morning we wake up into our actual life. The fireworks were an experience, but what we wake up into, what we go home to, who we look at when the fireworks are over, that's our life and we have to stop looking at fireworks as an indication of our real love life. I think there are plenty of people who keep passion alive in a relationship. I'm not trying to say that the fireworks have to end entirely. What I'm saying is that if nothing happens after the fireworks, you don't have the thing that you're really looking for, which is a partnership, a relationship, a life. You just have an experience and they're very different things.

An experience is not a relationship. An experience is not a partnership. So I say to you, I ask you the question, when you look back on this thing that you're mourning right now, and make no mistake, you're mourning it. It's a version of grief. When we lose something, we didn't just lose a person,

we lost a future that we thought we were going to experience. And that's what hurts so badly, is that for a moment that person, it felt like they were the salve to this need that we have had our whole lives. This person came along and they felt like the answer. Of course you're heartbroken. Don't beat yourself up for being heartbroken. Don't shame yourself for being heartbroken. Don't judge yourself for being heartbroken. It's not really about this person. It feels like it is.

But what it's really about is that if this person represented something and the feeling I got with them felt like the answer to something that I've been looking for my whole life. And I don't know when it's ever going to come along again. That's the scary part. Am I ever going to feel that way again? Am I ever going to find someone like this again? Maybe that was my one chance and I blew it. And of course we then start looking at all of the ways that we screwed it up. What could I have done differently? How could I have been better? How could I? And we torture ourselves that way. When you realize at the end of someone being there in the firework stage or someone who comes along to represent fireworks, when you realize that they then decide to leave, that they're not interested in

continuing, then that person's not the partner that you need. That person is not the life that you've been looking for, is not the person who's going to build with you. So understanding that you begin to realize that this hurts, but I can live with the hurt that I felt something and now I don't get to feel that now. But I don't have to live with the hurt that the love of my life just decided that they didn't want to be with me. You can miss an experience, but you can't mourn it as if it were a lifelong partnership. In order for something to be a lifelong partnership, it has to actually be a lifelong partnership. Now look, moments like this where me or another coach or a friend or a family member comes along and gives you a perspective that can help, can make the world of difference. Even if it's just 1%. A 1%

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