Spring Cleaning (Dating/Relationships)
Just as you clean out the clutter of past seasons collections from your overstuffed closet, your heart requires you to conduct an emotional spring cleaning as well. Whether you are in a relationship, fresh out of a heart-wrenching breakup, or happily single, you owe it to yourself to clean out the clutter from past or current relationships – without doing so you won’t be able to progress romantically.
While you can dedicate a few hours (or in CC’s case, requiring an entire day) to bag up your last season’s Miu Mius, boxing and labeling your feelings “trash”, “donations”, and “keep” is not as simple. It is challenging to “throw away” your heartbreaks and placing them out of sight, out of mind comes more easily. This tactic of placing your emotions high on the top shelf only prevents natural healing and growth and does yourself a disservice. Since you can’t exactly “donate” your ex boyfriend or girlfriend to charity (let’s face it who would want them anyway?), you can evaluate why they no longer fit into your life and how the next season will be more promising then the last. The “keep” box is an acknowledgement of the positive things you take from past relationships and what you hope to see more of in the future. Hang these thoughts at the forefront of your mind.
Your emotional detox is a decluttering of your dating and relationship experiences, allowing you the opportunity to nix the negative and draw in your ideal partner. Without analyzing how you dealt with past relationships, you will never fully understand how emotionally saturated with debris your mind and heart are. Just as last fall’s rustic cape trend is passé, as are your relationship missteps – on to a new style of…dating.
Xx Cocktail Chic
Photo Courtesy of Oprah
(Originally Written By Ashley Tschudin AKA “CocktailChic”, Posted on Fashion News Live April 16, 2011)
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