These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 8: Life Painkillers

This week: A Romantic Relationship Ends

Symptoms: Viewing friendship as the most trivial relationship and feeling that life is of no use.

Diagnosis: Your lover asked to continue the relationship as friends.

Painkiller:

• Denial is the painkiller with the most harmful side effects; stop it at the earliest.

• Beware of immediate reactions urging you to go into a compensatory relationship.

• Avoid revealing your weakness, and beware dragging other people’s sympathy.

• Make sure to communicate with close people you trust. Expand the circle of your communication with trustworthy people who have no connection with the problem to get a deep refreshment.

Treatment:

• Time, time, and time.

• When you feel balanced to go into a fresh experience, your new relationship will be better if you are neither looking for a replica of the old one nor the absolute opposite.

• Do not overthink. In love relationships, separation is not always due to a mistake by either party. The issue is often incompatibility in moods or visions.

• You will make the biggest mistake when you give up and deliberately choose not to enter any new relationship in anticipation of a potential failure.

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Dahab’s books are available on Goodreads and Booktasters are promoting them. This is the link to a trailer on “Damn the Novel,” his first book translated into English.