My condolences, young sensitive lass. Hands down, the best way is distraction. Whether that comes in the form of a new hobby, a trip, a monumental life change, revenge sex or onslaught of ill-fated Tinder dates, it doesn’t matter. The only important thing is that you’re getting a sense of novelty in your life.

My condolences, young sensitive lass. Hands down, the best way is distraction. Whether that comes in the form of a new hobby, a trip, a monumental life change, revenge sex or onslaught of ill-fated Tinder dates, it doesn’t matter. The only important thing is that you’re getting a sense of novelty in your life.

When you go through a breakup but don’t change your life to an appreciable degree afterward, you become stuck in the same patterns you did when you were dating. Nothing's changed, only now you’re all butt-hurt (like the anal darkness girl in the previous question) because they’re not there.

Something can only feel missing if it was there in the first place, so put yourself in situations where there’s no trace of your ex.

Here’s simplified example: If you drive to work down the same street that you guys used to live on every day, you’ll relive all the experiences you had together each time. If you drive to work a different way, you’re blazing your own trail. You’re making up new memories and patterns your ex can’t touch.

It’s the same reason having sex with new people is therapeutic; you only knew sex with your ex for a while, and that become standard. So when you add something or someone new, sex takes on a whole new set of meanings and associations.

Also, novelty stimulates dopamine release in your brain, which makes you happy. New shit and distractions from your mundane routine literally make take the focus off your ex, making seem less important, which can help you get over it.

Find other things that make you happy and concentrate on them. Think binge-watching “Roseanne,” conspiracy theories or ICP raves … you know, things that require a lot of your attention. When you focus on other things, thinking about them seems more pointless than thinking of a joke to end this question with … because I’m sort of doing it now in a way.