After a breakup, it may take a few weeks or even months to soothe hearts. Especially if we still feel love for the other. Only sometimes without knowing it, it happens to confuse this pain with that related to the wounded ego. Very often during a separation, the image that one has of oneself can also be affected, amplifying the discomfort felt. "As a couple, we feel at the center of each other's life, but during a breakup, we lose this status overnight," says Patrice Ras, speaker and author of the book The ego, friend or enemy? (1). In this sense, the end of a relationship can revive a childhood wound common to everyone, the one that occurs during childhood when we lose our privileges and we become aware that we are no longer the only center of our parents' world." In terms of post-separation suffering, and although it is most of the time a question of both love and ego, some signs allow...
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