14 DAY TRIAL // It's the holiday season and a heck lot of perfectly jolly people are getting engaged and bragging about it as often as they get the chance. The only problem is that not everybody is jumping up and down with joy this holiday season. Folks are also breaking up, and there is nothing merry about it.
The good news is that, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Positive Psychology, it's true when they say that time heals all wounds. In fact, it looks like the better way to phrase it is that 11 weeks, give or take a couple of days, make it all better.
The study in question is based on information obtained while surveying a total of 155 individuals, both men and women, who had recently gone through a breakup. Of these people, some initiated the breakup and others were, to put it bluntly, dumped.
The researchers behind this investigation say that, of the 155 participants in this study, 71% said that it took them about 11 weeks to cure their achy breaky hearts and start seeing the breakup in a more positive light, regardless of who it was that initiated it.
Specifically, the volunteers said that, 11 weeks after bidding their sweethearts farewell, they felt that they were more goal-oriented and that they had become a new, better person. Besides, they claimed that they were no longer bitter about the outcome of their relationships.
Then again, it's important to note that we are all different and that, consequently, we all heal in a different way. Otherwise put, some might take more than 11 weeks to get over a breakup and others might be back on their feet in just a few days.