Getting Over Your Ex Takes Three Months, Love Study

Does time really heal your broken heart? How much time, anyway?

After a break-up, your hunger pangs vanish too---for a while. You might be suffering some health issues too. But according to psychcentral.com, there is really no expiry date for the broken heart. Some people believe that they can recover in just half the time it took the relationships to last. Others think that it will take just a month.

With one billion situations woven around the demise of relationships, and the new spoilsport of Facebook telling us that our ex is gallivanting on a vacation trip at some other spot in the world---and probably with someone else---it can only mean the end of relationships as well as long drawn-out recovery periods.

A new study in the Journal of Positive Psychology concludes that 71 percent of 155 young adults take just about three months or 11 weeks to see that the break-up turns positive. The broken-hearted begin to turn around, feeling that they are recovering.

Does it sound like a decent-enough time? Or does is sound as if it is too short? After all, it is just an average, for everyone needs to go through some pretty stiff recovery times. You might think that it's easier for the person breaking off to recover than the one who has been rejected, but that's not how it works.

The first "dumping" man may have a slight edge over the rejected one. Yet both of them are in the middle of a miserable 11-week recovery zone. That's why he didn't move on before the other one.

Now how do you propose to prepare for the recovery?

Don't forget that here is an opportunity to pick up the pieces and move on. You can look within and tell yourself that you can change something within yourself, which will indicate that there is an opportunity to heal. Maybe your ego is demolished, and you will have to patch up everything with a paste job, everytime. But remember, you are always on the road to recovery, according to huffingtonpost.com