All heartbreak articles
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OpinionGREAT SEXPECTATIONS: I was dumped, and now I can’t move on
In our fortnightly column ‘Great Sexpectations’ we answer your questions on sex, faith and intimacy. Drop us an email on womanalive@premier.org.uk and ask us anything. Here Dr Kathrine McAleese speaks to a woman who can’t get over a break-up.
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OpinionMy dad died and then, 3 months later, the man I thought I’d marry broke up with me. Here is how God helped me to trust him again
Marie Weatherby felt let down and betrayed after going through grief and disappointment. It was only when she started to focus on God’s character that her perspective shifted.
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OpinionHow I was treated by my church during a break-up was more heart-breaking than losing the relationship
When Minister Maureen Morgan had her heart broken in church, she had to juggle the end of the relationship and the church’s response to it.
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Opinion'You are intimately aware of the sting of this loss': A prayer for when you love someone who doesn’t love you back
Heartbreak is agonising and brings up so much hurt and disappointment. Here, Elizabeth Moore and Audrey Elledge, authors of Liturgies for Hope, share their prayer for when you love someone who doesn’t love you back.
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OpinionNothing breaks like a heart but no one heals like our God… dealing with heartbreak as a Christian
Heartbreak can be excruciating, but as Christians we have God, who soothes and comforts. Here author of Notes On Love, Lauren Windle, shares some things that may help you if you’re trying to mend a broken heart.
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OpinionCan you still be friends with your ex and are you a bad Christian if you don’t manage it?
As much as we’d prefer it didn’t, dating can get messy so staying friends with an ex can be a challenge. Author of Notes On Love Lauren Windle, explores when you should and shouldn’t pursue friendship with an ex and the best ways to go about it.
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Article‘No matter what we’ve been through I’ve never lost hope’
Colleen Haynes Sheehy married a man with a disability, against her family’s advice. Sadly he passed away, but she went on to marry another man with the same disease
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Article‘I dealt with racism every day’
Rejected from church because of her skin colour, unsupported by her father for being a woman, and surviving a suicide attempt has not stopped grandmother, Babi Dixon, 70, from seeing God at work in her life
