{"id":33081,"date":"2012-06-03T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=33081"},"modified":"2021-03-07T19:57:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T01:57:44","slug":"how-do-i-move-on-after-breaking-up-with-my-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-do-i-move-on-after-breaking-up-with-my-boyfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I move on after breaking up with my boyfriend?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h2>Question:<\/h2>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just broken up with my boyfriend who isn&#8217;t a believer in Christ and it had already been several months. I can&#8217;t seem to forget him even though I know he is not the one for me. I can sense the Lord telling me he is not the one. He had a new girlfriend and each time I see them together, the wound &#8216;reopens.&#8217; We had a very bad break-up, but despite it, I can&#8217;t forget him. I find it so hard. I don&#8217;t know if I still love him.<\/p>\n<p>Please tell me what I need to or must do to forget him thoroughly.<\/p>\n\t<h2>Answer:<\/h2>\n<p>Love is not an emotion, though love is emotional. It is a choice. See &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/love-is\/\">Love is &#8230;\u00a0<\/a>&#8221; The choice made was that you two are not suitable as marriage partners. Therefore, the practical thing to do is accept that fact and find a man who is suitable. Having a good man at your side will make you realize that you are glad you did not marry the other man.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Hi, I&#8217;ve just broken up with my boyfriend who isn&#8217;t a believer in Christ and it had already been several months. I can&#8217;t seem to forget him even though I know he is not the one for me. I can sense the Lord telling me he is not the one. He had a new&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[149,652],"class_list":["post-33081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-dating","tag-grief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31000,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/i-broke-my-promises-to-my-boyfriend-will-god-punish-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":33081,"position":0},"title":"I broke my promises to my boyfriend. Will God punish me?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 21, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: I am a girl in my mid-twenties. 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