Going through heartbreak is already tough; quarantine made it more of a struggle.
March 14 marked one month since my breakup and somehow I dragged myself out of bed and got dressed. My girlfriend Bre had been doing her best to get me out of the house for the last couple of weekends; we had gone to the mall, she did my nails at the shop where she worked and we had even taken a weekend girls’ trip to Cincinnati.
The next day, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced the banning of dining-in at restaurants across the state due to the ever-growing spread of coronavirus. Stores began closing their doors, as well as cafes and the Cleveland Museum of Art — places where I liked to go to get work done as well as enjoy a change in scenery. Pretty soon, there was nowhere else to go but inside my own head.
Then all of a sudden, the stay-home-order was put into effect and my healing journey became a lot more complicated. “I think any time that you are in some kind of mass crisis, whether it’s something like Hurricane Katrina or Hurricane Sandy, or the tornadoes that just happened in the Midwest and South, and then you’re also experiencing your own personal crisis, it’s very hard because not only are you dealing with multiple levels of pain, suffering, uncertainty and anguish but ... it’s very hard as the individual to feel entitled to kind of focus on your own personal tragedy,” Addison says.
Recently, I realized I wasn’t getting better. While I still had virtual visits with my therapist, I still missed my ex and I worried about him because the coronavirus cases in the city he lives in were some of the highest in the country. I wanted to call to check up on him, but I realized the dynamic of our relationship had changed and it was no longer simply about picking up the phone to talk with him; it was about how the call was going to make me feel.
She also wants people going through heartbreak to know that the most important thing to keep in mind is that this hurt will not be there forever.
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