It’s over. The relationship has failed, and the love is over. And what’s left after that? The pain of separation! While women spend months analyzing the failure of the relationship and suffer terribly from the separation, men usually pull themselves together and go hunting again.
Women and men generally seem to deal with a breakup differently. In contrast to men, women are more open about their feelings after the end of a relationship and initially take some time for themselves. Men, on the other hand, often act cool after a breakup and try not to let their pain show. Of course, heartbreak manifests itself differently in everyone and how well a breakup is dealt with also depends on the circumstances and the overall situation. Nevertheless, differences between the sexes tend to be apparent.
Women talk, and men remain silent.
Women don’t hide their pain. They deal with the breakup openly, talk about it with their friends, their mother, or the hairdresser, and analyze the end of the relationship again and again. And men? They often suffer in silence. Instead of talking, men tend to distract themselves—with sports, work, or parties—and use their minds for other things than dealing with their heartbreak.
Women need time; men console themselves.
Women tend to need longer to process a breakup to the point where they can get involved with a new partner. They want to process the breakup first to be ready for the next relationship. Men, on the other hand, often console themselves with another woman shortly after the breakup. Some men need sexual distraction and the knowledge that they desire. Others, on the other hand, need a woman who takes away their feeling of being alone.
Women suffer more; men suffer longer.
When heartbreak hits, women not only strain their best friend’s ears but also their chocolate supplies and the cheesy romantic comedy on repeat. Women initially experience heartbreak worse than men and therefore suffer more from a breakup. However, because women reflect on the failed relationship in more detail, they also get over the failure more quickly than men. The lack of processing by men means that it takes them some time to understand what they have lost and the end of the relationship bothers them longer than the woman.
Men and women each have different methods of dealing with a breakup and coming to terms with the past relationship. Overall, it has been scientifically proven that women are better able to get over heartbreak, even if they initially perceive it as worse. Because while men act cool and unimpressed on the outside and keep all their pain to themselves, women talk their pain out and seek help from others.
