Let’s talk about heart break. We have all been there, whether you lose your best friend or you split with your sweetie-pie. You crash and burn and you're left wondering where you went wrong or rather how you went so wrong. Thankfully you are not alone. So in honor of Disney announcing the upcoming release of a live-action "Beauty and the Beast," Mrs. Potts is here to help narrate the five most common stages of grief.
Denial
The first stage of heartbreak is denial which comes directly after the initial split. You don’t want to believe it happened and maybe if you ignore it won’t hurt so bad. Your once gleeful happy go lucky chit chat has abruptly stopped. "Oh dear. That didn't go very well at all, did it?"
Irrational Thinking
This is the point of crazy, and you will have your friends wondering if you have a fever to go with those fits. You tell yourself maybe if you could just go back to that one moment it could reverse the whole thing. "Now, Chip, I won't have you making up such wild stories." Your name is probably not chip but you are seriously making up some whack stories.
Misery
You are at rock bottom, you have run out of tears and now you’re just wallowing in your own self-pity. "Cheer up, child. It'll turn out all right in the end. You'll see.” Your heart hurts and you can’t think of the last time you’ve felt this bad. But the bright side is sense you hit rock bottom you can only go up from here.
Acceptance
The pain and longing for your lost love is still there but you have finally accepted that what’s done is done and it’s really over. You may be in this phase for a while but everyone heals at their own pace. "Oh, it's not that easy, Lumiere. These things take time." I know you aren’t a talking candelabra but you’re ready to move on none the less and patience is key.
Over it
You’ve finally reached the other side and you are a brand new person ready to take on the world without fear once more. Your heart is open, it stopped hurting, and you don’t miss them anymore. "That was a very brave thing you did, my dear." Somedays it will still hurt when something reminds you of the happiness you once had. This familiar twinge of pain in your heart isn’t necessarily a sign that you aren’t truly over it, but a reminder of how wonderful things where and an indication of how great life is and will be again.
