ADVICE – Emotional availability, grieving a former partner, future projections… Certain signs reflect openness to a new relationship. Details with two specialists.
After a breakup, it often takes time to get back into a relationship. A therapeutic phase, in short, for thinking through and healing romantic disappointment. “Taking care of our breakup, giving it meaning and digesting things as little as possible allows us to be available again on an emotional level and prevent this unfinished romantic mourning from being reproduced in the next relationship,” assures psychotherapist and couples therapist Kathryn. Demangeot (1). Otherwise, we risk transferring our resentment and our feelings about the old relationship onto our new partner.
Therefore, trying to understand one’s intentions and availability can be helpful in avoiding the risk of betraying others or betraying oneself. It’s impossible to get someone to open up if you’re not really available to take an interest in them. Especially, interrogation is a good way to exercise our free will, the psychotherapist thinks. With that…
Source: Le Figaro
