Length6h 16m
About this audiobook
A breakup ends the relationship.
Unfortunately, your brain may continue running it for several months like a department nobody remembered to close.
You check their profile. Replay conversations. Analyze messages. Ask mutual friends for updates. Miss them at 11:00 p.m., feel surprisingly fine at breakfast, then nearly collapse emotionally because someone in a grocery store buys their favorite cereal.
Welcome to heartbreak.
How to Get Through a Breakup is a practical, funny, no-nonsense guide for getting through the emotional chaos without turning your ex into a full-time research project.
Max Paradox walks you through what actually keeps breakup pain alive and what helps reduce it. You will learn how to stop feeding obsessive checking, manage the urge to text, deal with loneliness, handle painful memories, rebuild routines, survive setbacks, stop comparing your recovery with your ex's, and begin dating again without accidentally hiring someone as an emotional replacement.
This is not a book about "just letting go."
That is not a method.
It is a decorative sentence people put on mugs.
Instead, you will get practical strategies for difficult moments: what to do when an emotional wave hits, how to create boundaries that actually work, how to reduce social-media triggers, how to stop negotiating with the past, how to reclaim places and routines connected to your relationship, and how to recognize when nostalgia is quietly rewriting history.
You will also learn what to do when the normal plan stops working.
What if your ex contacts you?
What if they start dating someone else?
What if you relapse and send the message?
What if months pass and you still miss them?
What if life becomes stressful and suddenly the old relationship looks comforting again?
The goal is not to become completely indifferent.
It is to stop organizing your present around something that has ended.
Written in Max Paradox's practical, observational style, How to Get Through a Breakup combines useful psychology, everyday examples, concrete actions, and enough humor to stop heartbreak from becoming a two-hundred-page motivational funeral.
You do not need to "win" the breakup.
You do not need to become mysteriously hotter on Instagram by next Thursday.
You need to understand what is happening, stop making the pain unnecessarily harder, rebuild your life, and move forward without waiting for another person to give you permission.
That is what this book will help you do.
One practical decision at a time.
This publication was prepared with the assistance of tools that support the creative process, including artificial intelligence-based solutions. The final concept, structure, and editing belong to the author.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help
Length6 hrs 16 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 9, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRO
2Chapter 1 - Your Brain Did Not Get the Memo
3Chapter 2 - Stop Feeding the Wound
4Chapter 3 - Stop Negotiating with the Past
5Chapter 4 - Loneliness Is a Terrible Matchmaker
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6Chapter 5 - Delete the Emergency Exit
7Chapter 6 - Stop Auditioning for Your Ex
8Chapter 7 - Stop Asking the Wrong People
9Chapter 8 - Stop Waiting to Feel Ready
10Chapter 9 - Survive the Wave Before You Make a Decision
11Chapter 10 - Reclaim the Scene of the Crime
12Chapter 11 - Build a Life That Does Not Need Them in It
13Chapter 12 - Learn to Handle the Memories
14Chapter 13 - Stop Asking Whether They Have Moved On
15Chapter 14 - Date Again Without Hiring a Replacement
16Chapter 15 - What to Do When You Relapse
17Chapter 16 - When Life Refuses to Cooperate
18Chapter 17 - When You Still Miss Them Months Later
19Chapter 18 - Learn the Early Warning Signs
20Chapter 19 - Stop Reopening the Door
21Chapter 20 - You Are Not Starting Over
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