Having a crush is a multifaceted experience.
Keep your distance.
so that stop liking someone, you’re gonna wanna get some space.
Cut the fuel at the source.
As much as possible, venture to spend less time with this person.
Take a break from the friendship.
Most friendships ebb and flow over time anyway, with some periods where you see each other less often.
Maintain emotional distance.
Set some boundaries for yourself and stick to them.
Keep it polite and generic, at least for the time being.
Unfollow them on social media.
(All those cute smiling selfies or worsegulpthirst traps?
Don’t expect yourself to resist!)
Unfollow or mute them on social media so you stop seeing their posts appearing on your feed, too.
Avoid triggers.
Acknowledge all the reasons it realistically wouldn’t work.
Focus your energy elsewhere.
give a shot to avoid having too much idle time sitting around with your thoughts.
Keep yourself occupied and fill your life with other things to take up real estate in your mind.
Meet new people.
Sometimes the best way to get over someone is to meet someone new.
Avoid rabbit holes of fantasy and yearning.
Ruminating can keep us tethered to ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
When this happens, gently catch yourself and move your thoughts on to something else.
Give it time.
At the end of the day, it’s possible for you to’t really rush these things.
Ittakes time to get over someone, so cut yourself some slack and trust the process.
“You might even notwantthem to fade.
But feelings do change over time.
That’s just the nature of things.
You’ll change over the months and years, and so will the person you have feelings for.
None of us stay the same.
Remember that it’s OK to like someone and not do anything about it.
There’s nothing wrong with liking someone and not actualizing it.
See if you might make peace with the idea of liking someone without needing to “have” them.
