As long as he is actively working on resolving his emotions, staying single for a minimum of 3 to 6 months is sufficient.

The reality is, you don’t know how deep the emotional damage is, unless you give it time.

There are guys who don’t feel severe emotional repercussions in the immediate aftermath of a relationship’s end.

Sadly, he misinterprets this as a sign that he is in the clear to quickly get into a new relationship soon after the old one has ended.

This is a massive blunder, given that any repressed emotions stemming from his old relationship are destined to surface in his new relationship.

This is why you mustn’t misconstrue an absence of severe emotional sadness when a relationship ends, as a sign that you are ready to move on and get into a new relationship.

Emotional damage lies dormant in men because they rarely address these emotions as they arise in a relationship.

As a result, the emotions lay dormant within him as though they don’t exist.

Ergo, once the relationship ends, he thinks he can easily move on to a new relationship, but this is a grievous miscalculation.

The emotional trauma stemming from his previous relationship does eventually erupt, like a volcano.

It does while he is in his new relationship, and his unsuspecting new girlfriend has to bear the brunt of it.

Needless to say, his new relationship is doomed to fail.

He was never fully emotionally available to his new girlfriend.

He didn’t realize that the negative emotions stemming from his past relationship were inside of him, but laying dormant.

For this reason, you shouldn’t be in a hurry to get into a new relationship when an old one ends, especially being a guy.

As aforementioned, a guy is less likely to deal with his emotions while he is in a relationship with a girl.

He represses them until they become dormant.

When a relationship ends, those negative emotions, though dormant, are now compounded.

They have piled up on each other due to months or years of neglect.

It is all waiting to erupt when he least expects it, which in turn, jeopardizes any new relationship that he has gotten himself into.

Unlike men, women can get into a new relationship when one ends without having to worry about pent-up emotions that were never addressed while she was in a relationship with her ex-boyfriend.

That is owing to the fact that women are far more adept at dealing with their emotions while they are in a relationship.

They don’t repress them like men do theirs, but instead, address them head-on and deal with them.

This is in the form of her expressing said feelings to her then boyfriend, or talking to her family and friends about them.

She works through her emotions through expressing them and gets over it.

This way, by the time a relationship ends, she isn’t weighed down by months or years of repressed emotions that are brewing under the surface and about to explode in the foreseeable future.

This is particularly true given the fact that women have a much higher likelihood of ending a relationship than men do.

In knowing that she is about to end a relationship, she has the time to come to terms with her emotions before ending the relationship.

Given that a man isn’t usually the one who ends relationships, and is more inclined to be the one who represses his emotions while in a relationship, it’s best to stay single for 3 to 6 months after a relationship ends.

This gives you enough time to work through your current emotions, while waiting to see whether there are dormant emotions that you never addressed during the relationship that are waiting to erupt.

By giving it this much time, you don’t risk taking any emotional baggage into a new relationship.