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When I read @emiliorios publication, at first I had a hard time understanding the relationship between the socio-critical paradigm and participatory action research focused on love breakups. The reason? I had never approached this topic in the way our columnist did. It is a novelty. However, after careful thought, I now have a clearer understanding. Because of my initial difficulty, I asked our columnist to write about it in @holos-lotus, so that he could review my approach and give me his opinion. Of course, I am open to receiving corrections or suggestions on my arguments regarding the subject.
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One of the initial ideas that I take up here is that, first of all, we must understand that a love breakup is an emotional experience charged with negativity. We feel the deep pain caused by the disappearance of the relational bond we had established with the other person. It is not a simple disappearance without consequences; it can make a big difference in our lives.A before and after.When it happens, the most delicate aspect of the emotional situation is manifested; we can develop thoughts that validate prejudiced erroneous beliefs, and that, in turn, can lead us to feel hatred towards the other person, fall into depression, or experience helplessness. It is circumstantial, as I believe that every breakup has its particularities and nuances. Not all of them are the same. But despite that emotional experience, the important thing is to prevent the breakup from affecting us in such a way that our perspective of ourselves and others is distorted or that it generates thought patterns that lead us to experience self-destructive emotional misery.
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To avoid or rather minimize the negative consequences of love breakups, we can adopt the socio-critical approach, complemented by action research. I think the main thing is to understand what we mean by love. At this point, you can try to formulate a very elaborate concept of love. But, in that formulation, did you think about the social norms, values, or prejudices that influence the meaning you have attributed to love? There is one aspect that cannot go unnoticed: any conceptualization of love can change or be different as a consequence of the love experiences you have lived through; this is the usual and profound difference between our thoughts and what we experience in life.
Now, on a more reflective and personal level, think carefully about the flaws or mistakes you experienced in a relationship that ended in a breakup and try to recognize all the negative patterns of behavior, both in yourself and in the other person. Did what you experienced during that relationship impact you enough to understand the flaws that existed in that relationship? If you still have difficulty recognizing and considering a context in which you plan to live a new love experience, what do you think might happen if you enter a new relationship burdened with the same flaws that damaged your previous relationship? It is commonly said that “when we fall in love, we don't see flaws in the other person, we think they are perfect”.
However, what we can and should do for our emotional health, is to analyze honestly what worked and what did not in the relationship, not thinking strictly in the search for blame, but trying to identify the mistakes made and positively overcome them, with the purpose of not committing them again in the future, thus contributing positively to our own life and our future relationships.
A veces no pensamos bien las cosas hasta que las vivimos
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I have heard of the dynamics of couples who see love as essentially capricious and fickle but then suffer deeply from those dynamics. Are those dynamics healthy and beneficial to our lives? Could our ways of loving be skewed by unrealistic expectations or toxic ideas? And if they are, to what extent might they affect my emotional relationship with another person? I think it is important to understand this as we try to overcome a breakup and form new attachments. Otherwise, the recovery process will remain difficult, because you may unconsciously repeat self-destructive behaviors that you do not yet know how to handle properly or without realizing it, you may meet a new person with a behavior similar to that of your previous partner. The underlying idea is that you manage to cultivate the habit of being more aware of yourself and your relational dynamics.
Avoid going to the bar on weekends to indulge in alcoholic delights or engaging in >inflammatory group gossip with generalizing phrases such as “everyone is the same”. Again, it is also about achieving a conscious trade-off: exchanging a preference for alcohol or escapist options for a greater understanding of self. Or, in the case of group conversations, avoid talking for the sake of talking without a clear purpose and choose to have conversations that truly enrich your perspective of your environment and yourself.