According to the study, lovesickness lasts an average of one year
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When does this stop? Lovesickness usually lasts a year
Lovesickness can be very stressful and painful
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Anyone who has ever had severe lovesickness knows that it feels endless and as if it were a state of the psyche that will never go away. A study confirms that it usually takes a year for it to be over.
Thought loops keep turning over and over again in the head. Could the breakup have been avoided? What mistakes have you made yourself and why did love fail? An endless cycle of analysis begins in the phase of lovesickness. Psychologically, this condition is very stressful for those affected.
The population-representative study on the subject of lovesickness with 1724 singles, carried out by the dating portal ElitePartner, showed that there is no sex that breaks up more often. Draw the line men and women appear to be similarly common. During the survey, half had overcome lovesickness, a quarter were still suffering from it and the last quarter even said they had never had lovesickness in their life.
There are different variants when it comes to separations, either one leaves the other or one goes separate ways by mutual agreement. The study clearly reflected that fewer people suffer lovesickness when the breakup was consensual than when they were left. Also as single were happier those who represented the active part of the separation or in which both spoke out in favor of a separation.
Abandoned ones are lovesick the longest
The type of separation in a partnership also affects the duration of lovesickness. In general, men and suffer Women for a similar length of time, 11.9 months to 12.8 months on average, when they are lovesick. But one difference became clear, if the separation was decided unilaterally, the abandoned suffer longer with an average of 14.1 months.
The least painful thing, however, is the love-off for those who were able to agree on it together. Here the average value of 10.5 months is even less than a year.
The psychologist Lisa Fischbach explains: “Rarely do all the emotional connections to why you loved each other suddenly dissolve with the breakup. That’s why most people suffer from the loss of the partnership and need many months to process the grief. Will be discussed in conversations the end of the joint life plans for both of them partner clarified in a comprehensible way, fairly negotiated about the dissolution of joint property or custody, this often avoids self-doubt, anger and thoughts of revenge, which are very hindering in overcoming lovesickness and achieving personal satisfaction as a single person.”
Source: Elite Partners
