Summary: Romantic Breakups

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Article Summary: Romantic Breakups According to the article, “Romantic Breakups”, everyone at some point of their lives experiences a break-up. Romantic break-up can be experience at a young or old age. Break-ups can be experience various times in once life. This break-up can be romantic breakups or divorce. The article, “Romantic Breakups” discusses the negative and positive outcomes of breakups. The negative outcomes of a breakup may led to the following; loneliness, distress, and loss of self. Most influence experience the negative aspects the first time they experience a break-up. In the other hand they’re individual who have a positive outcome of a breakup. The article states, “Exploring positive outcomes in the context of otherwise negative events follow from a growing body of literature based positive psychology that examines the positive elements of the experience that promotes growth and personal prosperity.”(Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000) In other words the negative experiences from a breakup turns in a positive growing experience. The individual takes the time to exam the breakup and reflects on the positives. …show more content…
The successful approach is known as expressive writing or journaling. This approach focus on cognitive processing, simple format and a successful track record. Writing is a form to express one feeling and thought which leads to positive outcomes. According to the article, “Breakups”, a writing-based intervention conducted with one hundred participants who experienced breakups in the last three months. The purpose of this intervention was to determine whether a writing-based intervention help individuals with coping with a romantic