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What The Heck Are Rebound Relationships?

What’s wrong with rebound relationships? They allow you to get over a former relationship that’s gone south, so what’s the problem? Unfortunately, a lot things. Lets take a closer look.

If you have been involved in deeply intimate, deeply intricate relationship, it is super critical you give yourself enough time and space to process the old relationship before you even think of moving on. Otherwise, you are dragging around old baggage.

Is it remotely fair to your new interest to know that emotionally you are in another place, thinking of someone else? In body you may be in one place while your heart exists somewhere else.

Before entering an involvement with someone who may have history of rebound relationships, you need to be asking some tough upfront questions: Are you emotionally over the past relationship? Has enough time elapsed to allow the processing of the emotions? Is it really time to consider an another deep involvement?

Rebound relationships can make you quickly forget about the past. Chances are that the former involvement had moved beyond the romantic/lovey-dovey phase into the real meat and bones of what make up a couples’ life. Problems are replaced with fun and laughter. Everything seems easy. That’s what makes rebound relationships so intoxicating.

If you have the mind to throw caution to the wind and enter into one of these rebound relationships, know upfront what you’re in for. After the cushy romantic section of a relationship comes phase two, where things get more difficult. Slow things down, if you can. If your new involvement is significant it can withstand a small dose of personal analysis.

In these situations it would most advantageous to your emotional well being if you slowed events down a tad. What’s the rush? You don’t want to allow yourself to be a bridge that takes your new partner from one way of life to another, with you left behind wondering what the heck just happened.

It would be good to be honest with yourself when it comes to the potential outcome of these rebound relationships. Often, they fail. That doesn’t mean the are guaranteed to be unsuccessful, but know the place you are about to enter. “Caution” is the word of the day.

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