Article December 6, 1975 Issue

Healing a Broken Heart

CHERYL GARRETT ROBERTSON

It can seem that the world is coming to an end when you break up with someone you care for. That's how it was with me, but now I feel it was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.

I had been going to the Christian Science Sunday School since I was five and had seen many kinds of problems solved through prayer. By the time I went to college I had to prove it could heal a broken heart, too. I started dating a young man and fell deeply in love with him. Everything was beautiful until he said he wanted to date other girls. I immediately fell apart, but I tried hard not to let it show.

I was a member of a club and was committed to spending that weekend in the clubhouse. Not only could I not go off and be alone to be sorry for myself, but I had to act happy. I kept silently pleading, "God, I just want to be alone." But really I just wanted to be alone so I could indulge in self-pity and self-justification. I had had spurts of crying fits in between moody calm.

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