Your partner dumped you and you are still far from getting over it and still keep saying it over and over again, “He dumped me, how will I ever survive?” While the pain is still fresh, no amount of advice from articles or even families and friends can make you feel better. Just remember that even if somebody broke your heart, it does not mean that your entire personality is already broken.

Being in the receiving end of rejection makes one fearful of two things. First, you wonder if the pain will ever go away and second your low self esteem make you fear that nobody will ever love you again. You may not know it right now, but yes, you will get over the pain and as it slowly becomes a dim memory, your self-esteem will rise up and look forward to a new day and having a new life.

Even if your partner left you, you are not entirely alone. Your family and friends will continue to be there to love you and care for you. Now that you are momentarily alone is a good time to renew your bonds with them. Generally, when we are into a romantic relationship, our world becomes all too narrow and focused on that one person that we start to lose sight of our families, friends or even ourselves.

If you are open to sharing your pain with them, they might see it helpful to share with you their own previous heartaches and make you realize that your experience and the pain you are feeling right now are not so exclusive to you. Then it will raise your hopes because you see this individual who was formerly broken hearted but now has fully recovered.

Again, you can use your free time to reconnect with your loved ones and take up the issues you think have been buried within you. Oftentimes, we get too embroiled in a romantic relationship that you let go of all your other interests if they are not shared by your ex. You could use this time to pursue your interests again.

Otherwise, take up a new hobby or a new activity. Being dumped connotes a very negative imagery of you that is equal to being insignificant. Getting involved in a new interest will prove that you are capable of doing something and that you are important.

There are so many things that you can work on. Joining a workshop, a program an association could be a good start. If you are the outdoor type, you can join a hiking club. If you are fond of dancing or love the nightlife, you can enroll in a ballroom dancing class. Enrolling on a creative writing class will enable you to meet literary or poetic individuals.

As you meet more people and engage yourself in more activities you will slowly regain your balance and before you know it the pain is gone. You are now living a new life with new friends, and from among those new friends might emerge someone who could become special.

Life is too short to be spent on pining and the universe is so vast for you not to find your real soul mate.

One of these days, you might even be able to appreciate that day you said “he dumped me”, because this was the day that you started to know that you are strong enough to move on, appreciate your relationship with family and friends better, pursue your forgotten interests, know that you are not worthless, and best of all you found someone who will never ever dump you again.