What does "let go" and "move on" mean exactly?

Question

People throw that around. And have you giving that advice ever had to do it?

Answer 1

it means quit trying to fix or analyze a situation you have little or no control over and direct yourself to a healthy happier situation and or lifestyle without looking back.

Answer 2

To me, it means making an effort to move past a negative experience, to put my emotions back under control - instead of having them control me. Ultimately, this means that the negative experience recedes into the past, and ceases to cause the acute pain it might have been causing in the beginning. It also means learning the lesson from the experience, making sense of what happened, and adjusting to the new situation. Yes, I had to do it several times to one degree or another; I've had a few relationships that were intense, and/or ended in disaster, the worst one being my husband of five years walking out on me one day with no prior warning. So yeah, I've had to "let go" and "move on", and I did. I am now happily remarried. Most of all, to me, it is about the effort that one needs to make - it is not an easy process by any means, but it is something that needs to be done in certain situations.

Answer 3

I have. I'm divorced twice. I want a woman again for a long-term partnership.

Let go and move on means the past holds you back in making new relationships work. You never lose who you are, but sometimes people get hung up on who they were.

Answer 4

Let go: stop thinking of that person as being part of your life; stop referring to that person in terms of endearment, verbally and mentally; stop making plans to include that person in your daily life, including phone calls, emails, invitations to eat out, go to entertainment, and purchasing gifts; stop maintaining an interest in that person's affairs, including following that person around, asking that person's friends for "updates", watching and waiting for that person at common thoroughfares; ignore any attempt of your heart to sabotage your head.
Move on: involve yourself in activities that are what you enjoy rather than what the two of you used to do together, meet new friends; get rid of any material goods that remind you of that person; get involved in some new project; move to a new place if that is financially feasible or doesn't interfere with your career; think of the rest of your life instead of your past.

Everyone has to do it at some level some time with someone.

Answer 5

yes I've had to do that, you let go by looking forward and not back when you spend your time thinking of what was and what should've been your holding on you have to think of what comes next, you move on by getting out, meeting people you don't have to jump right back into a relationship just don't spend your time alone thinking about the past. its not easy but you can do it

Answer 6

I have actually had to do it myself. I had to let go and move on. It means exactly what is states......LET GO and MOVE ON!!!! It doesn't mean wait, hold on or stick around.

I was dating this guy everyone told me to let go and move on.....one day he broke up with me and I waited around for him and when he decided to come back he told me himself to Let go and move on....guess what I did just that......and when I did......He came running back and I told him that it was over forever. I married someone else.

Answer 7

It means to "let go" of the other person mental, emotionally, and physically. "Move on" means to start doing other things with your life.

Answer 8

yes yes yes i was younger and i was actually told by his friend to not call him or anything again that he doesn't want to talk to me anymore. what does it mean -basically that you mean nothing to them and to move on with your life-the best advice i can give anyone that has happened to is do better than him or her improve yourself and weather you ever see them again is irrelivant but if you do they will see what they missed out on. Theres no one thats worth holding on when they don't want you in their lives at all.

Answer 9

let go means leave her alone and move on to somebody else and move on means move on dont look back let go and move on is what alot of people should do but dont instead they like to hold on and keep getting hurt its ridiculous that you break up but dont want your ex to get another girlfriend and you make their life miserable move on let go is very good advice and i wish more people would practivce it

Answer 10

It means you should release that problem like a puppy releases a bone and you should go forward in hope in your thinking, rather than continually reliving the incident in your mind.