The tips that will be listed on here actually revolve around someone detaching from an ex, but these tips can also be applied to someone you are in a current friendship or relationship with.
Here are a few ways in which you can detach yourself from someone you might truly care about.
1. Focus on healing your wounds and brokenness.
Sometimes, you can become totally invested in a person as you make a decision to take on all of their problems and their woes. That’s why if you really want to detach from someone, it might be best to just focus on all the broken parts of your own life.
2. Give yourselves space to breathe.
Give you and your partner some space to breathe. It doesn’t have to be anything drastic. You can emotionally detach yourself bit by bit until you’ve lost all sense of attachment completely and only the love remains. You just have to be brave enough to start the process.
3. Look at your relationship in an objective matter.
Sometimes, you can get lost in all of the romanticism in your relationship that you become totally blind to the parts of it that you need to be seeing. Your relationship is not perfect. And the more you come to terms with the imperfect parts of it, then the easier it will be for you to detach yourself from it.
4. Find the triggers of your attachment.
A lot of the time, in order for you to overcome the attachment that you feel, you first need to understand where all of that attachment is coming from. You must first address all of the triggers of your attachment and then you will be able to systematically address them one by one.
5. Learn from people who understand the art of detachment.
You should be able to learn from people who understand what it really means to detach from others. Learn about their stories. Familiarize yourself with their experiences. Learn from them and try to see how you can apply those lessons to your own personal life and situation.
6. Understand that the pain of detachment is only temporary.
And detachment is going to hurt of course. Think of it as you just ripping off the Band-Aid that’s been latching on to your skin for so long. But know that that pain is only going to be temporary. And eventually, you’re going to find that it’s the right decision for you to make.
