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Have you really moved on? Learn the signs
Samira Vishwas | October 20, 2025 7:26 PM CST

Have you really moved on?

After a breakup, everyone wants to say that they have moved on. But how to actually understand that you have truly moved on? This process is not as simple as it sounds. It takes time, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. After a time, we stop missing that person and think that we have moved on. But is this the real sign? Probably not.

In fact, emotions subside a bit over time. But this does not mean that you are completely free from that relationship. There are certain habits, feelings, and behaviors that indicate that you are still stuck in that broken relationship, no matter how strong you appear to be on the outside.

5 shocking signs that you haven’t moved on yet

1. You’re still stocking them online

If you’re keeping an eye on things like their stories, profiles, posts or ‘who you’re with’, it means you may have missed them completely. Everything to their activities on social media grabs your attention, which shows that your old attachment is still there.

2. You are stuck repeating the past

When you repeatedly think ‘I wish I had done that…’ or ‘I wish I had said that…’, your mind is actually still trying to repair that relationship. This is not a sign of regrets, but of unfulfilled expectations, which do not allow you to return to the present.

3. They are also present in your current thoughts

If you think about them, ‘What would they say, what would they do?’, it means they are still a part of your emotional world. When an ex-partner influences your thinking and decisions, it is a clear sign that you are still attached to that relationship.

4. You find it difficult to connect with new experiences

If your first thought at any new place or event is the same old face, ‘I wish they were here’, then you are not fully living the present. Such attachment keeps you away from new people and new beginnings.

5. You are focusing more on their life, not yours.

If your thoughts repeatedly go to ‘who are they with, what are they doing’, then you are still stuck in the same energy. Their life becomes the center of your attention, and your own healing gets stuck there.



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