The Psychology Behind a Rebound Relationship

Are you distracting yourself from growth?

Carl Jung is one of the most influential theorists on psychoanalysis of our time.

His theories on archetypes, and especially our “Shadow” self are explained as what lies within our unconscious — all the parts of our personality we deny or distract ourselves from.

Our Ego is what is vying for control to keep the content of our “shadow” hidden. This ironically results in being controlled by our Ego; by our habits, by our impulses, and believe-it-or-not, by the very shame our Ego tries to push away.

Go figure…

Needless to say, Jung’s theories can shed light on the things we do, and why we do them — why we repeat toxic habits that ruin our happiness, or why we hurt others.

Or, why we engage in rebound relationships and avoid personal growth which winds up hurting ourselves.

Personal growth is about the challenge of moving past our Ego and conquering our fears for self empowerment.

This can’t happen if we’re distracting ourselves.

As a result, many don’t accept this challenge.

Look, I get it. Relationship endings suck. The longer we were with someone, the more amazing the shared memories, the harder it can be to let go of the person we thought we would spend “forever” with.

Yet, forever to one person can have an expiration date to another.

Walking away from what was a significant relationship can be tough. Even the word significant has a different meaning from one person to the next; from one relationship to the next, so understanding the common types of relationships can help with defining “significant”.

We’ve probably all experienced vanilla relationships that were “OK” and temporarily filled a void or lessened…

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