If you are a Christian who is looking to start dating again after a breakup, how long should you wait? What is enough time to heal and truly move on from that past relationship before starting a new relationship? There is no set rule for how long you should wait to date after you breakup with someone else. The general principle that I believe should be followed is that you should wait for as long as you need to wait.

In other words, you should start dating again when your heart is ready for it. To some that might seem overly simplistic, but if you start putting actual time-frames on things like this your life will start looking very legalistic rather than Spirit led and Bible saturated.

As long as she didn’t break up with a friend of yours, you should move in I started dating her immediately after she broke up w/ someone in a.

Psychologist and author of Dating From The Inside Out , Pauette Kauffman Sherman, has spoken to Glamour magazine about the one rule we probably all want to know the answer to — how soon is too soon, and when should we move on after a break up. According to Pauette, if you dated for less than a year you should wait a month before moving on, and if you dated someone for longer than a year you might need three to four months. On the other hand, you might need less time if your relationship was very short.

What if two people had a very intense 6-month relationship that ended, the people in question would more than likely need more than four short weeks to shack up with someone else, right? Who knows, maybe they need a whole year and that is A-OK. Then you decide to move on very quickly with someone else because they make you dead happy, which is also more than OK.

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