What would be a good rebound time period after a relationship?

If you are not grieving, about 30 seconds.

@worriedguy Nice. Yeah not really grieving at all, more annoyed with waiting for them to get all their stuff out. I was just curious if i might be on the rebound and not even be aware of it. Not that I plan on getting back into a relationship anytime soon, I just don’t want to make any irrational decisions.

6 months to a year.

If it was a real relationship with some mileage on it.

Apparently for me, as of right now, it has been 3 years, 4 months, 2 days. But really, I’m not counting. :-(

I’ve heard that typically the rebound and time of healing is about half of the length of the relationship. I don’t know how much that actually holds true though. It definitely depends on the relationship, how it ended, and what kind of feelings you are still carrying with you about your ex and your relationship.

The statute of limitations on post-relationship misery is usually half the time the relationship existed.

For instance, you should expect to be sad for 1.5 years if you had a bad breakup from a 3 year relationship and so on. This is a trend that I have noted to be generally true, at least among my peers and I.

Meh, no time.

If you wanted to break up for awhile, then no time. Just don’t move in with anybody for at least a few months!

The downhill side of the relationship counts as rebound recovery time. I’m still sticking with if you’re not grieving, go ahead and get out there. Time’s a wastin’!

Around six & a half minutes, ten if you’re from Cleveland. They’re a considerate bunch I hear :¬)

Sounds like a fairly clean break. If you are still pining for that person, than wait, if not….Go for it!

What ever works for you is best. I have yet to see a time formula work or be best for anyone including myself! Everybody is different and the circumstances of every relationship you have and or end is different. You make the call!

The best way to get over someone is to get under someone.

I’m not quite sure I believe in rebounding. I think that if you know who you are and how you feel, you can handle a new person whenever a good one happens to come along. The process is still the same. You still spend some time getting to know them before taking the relationship to the next and next and next step.

Even if you are heading out there kind of wildly, just casting around for the first person who will be interested, is that so bad? We’re all adults. No one is promising anyone anything unless they make a promise. So hold off on promises.

Other than that, go out and have fun if you can. Take care of yourself however you feel you need to. Please don’t worry about not doing the rebound thing. It’s not necessarily a bad thing. It could really help you move on. Just don’t take anything too seriously until it has had time to develop. That’s what you need to do in order to take care of yourself.

It depends on the relationship, I’d say. I’ve had a couple of real heartbreaks that took a year or two to really get over. In another instance, it took me a couple of months to get over the end of a 2.5 year relationship enough to be able to give someone new my full attention. We had tried it earlier and I was so not ready and couldn’t even go there. She persisted and waited patiently, and then we dated after I’d healed a bit. I will say that even though that particular relationship ended up being awful, it did help me move on and heal from the breakup.

My hat’s in the ring with those who say part of the “rebound” period for me was in the tail end of the relationships I left. I was on good enough terms with my partners to where we discussed moving on and knew we would split but the rest was timing and money.

I’m a big believer in taking lots of space between relationships.

I won’t date anyone less than 2 years out of a longterm marriage/relationship. Perferably more like 3–5 if it has been a marriage.

I strongly disagree with rebounds.

Do your work, take the space, but very few do.

If someone can’t be at ease with themsleves I sure don’t want them! lol

Whenever you feel ready to start a new relationship.

there IS a formula for calculating the rebound period for a relationship of ANY length.
BUT first it must be understood, where most people are wrong, the rebound period has nothing to do with any emotional or physical attachment, who broke it off, or how etc. (they relate to your mourning period in which it can never be calculated, cleary everybody is an individual!) the rebound period is what ‘others’ perceive. for example if you break up with a partner of any length of relationahip, and date someone within say a month, whether YOU are mourning still or not, OTHERS will see the new relationahip as a rebound. OR if you break up with your partner and then a whole 2 years later date someone else, nobody will say thats a rebound. yet you may still be mourning over your ex. so that is what a rebound period is defined as, and below is how it is calculated.
NOTE: a different formula applies for males and females.

FOR MALES
y = log(4x/3) / log2

OR to solve for x
x = (¾) * 2^y 
where x = unit of time in the relationship
and y = unit of time of rebound period
NOTE: the same time units for x and y must be used, however months is preferred as it is more practical.

FOR FEMALES
y = log2x / log2

OR to solve for x
x = (½) *2^y

a typical relationship for a male usually settles by around 1.5 months. the length of the relationship being x. your rebound period, which we call y, increases by a month each time the length of the relationship is doubled from the 1.5 month settlement.
for females the settlement is typically 2 months.

example for male: after a relationship of 6 months, the mathematics considers the following 3 months is rebounding period…
y = log(4x/3) / log2
y = log(4*6/3) / log2
y = log(24/3) / log2
y = log8 / log2
using advanced calculator
y = 3

example for male: after a relationship of 2 years (24 months), rebounding period is 5 months.
example for female: relationship – 4 months, rebound period is 3 months.
example for female: relationship – 8 months, rebound period is 4 months.