I looked up the definition of Rumination thanks to your post, as I am the Queen of Rumination myself. An alternate definition of it is a word for how a cow chews its cud. Well, that means a process of digesting! Rumination is processing in order to digest.

I know so much psych info says it’s unhealthy and try to teach stopping it. But I am quite happy to ruminate away. First of all, who is it hurting?

Your therapist who rolls her eyes when you mention it, would be gone if she were my therapist. She is also invalidating you!

I ruminated about past exes. Eventually, I got over them. We are very highly sensitive people. So we need to ruminate before putting it to rest in our hearts.

I know there are dangers. Sometimes I arrive somewhere and have no memory of the drive because I was somewhere else mentally. But, thank God, I never had an accident. I obey the rules of the road.

In time you will get over this ex and rarely ever think about him.

He did do you a favor by leaving you. He was no good.

I ruminated about an ex who even at the time, my mom said he did he a favor, and I knew she was right. But I still ruminated. 20 years later I find a website after googling his name where someone wrote how he was a super villain. I thought I loved that POS??? I don’t know why my heart was having such bad judgment. You don’t know yours either.

Three cheers for you for getting rid of the bum!