Breaking up is not all that difficult
According to a small study done with some 70 college students, breaking up, although surely not a very pleasant experience and period that comes after that, isn't all that hard really. Students were surveyed periodically about the status of their relationships, whether they felt good or bad about it, and were asked to express the level of stress at that point in time. After about six months 26 students reported their relationships ended, and it turned out it took about 10 weeks for them to recover emotionally.
It turns out that not only does life spring back to pre-breakup mode almost twice as fast as people actually expect, but also that the initial split is easier than most people perceive it to be. There are several heartbreak helpers, counter measures if you will, that spring up into action after the break up, that at the time are not something people are aware of. For example, some people unconsciously concentrate on their ex's bad habits or characteristics, which indirectly makes it easier to move on.
So basically, if that time is coming for you, and you decide to end your intimate relationship with the other person, know that it will probably be easier to cope with the break up than it seems. Or so the statistics say… 
[Via: MSNBC]