“There’s certainly a case to be made for unfollowing an ex,” says Damona Hoffman, a dating coach and Host of The Dates & Mates Podcast. “When a relationship ends, we usually need time and space to heal and process what happened, and social media makes it difficult to maintain distance.”

Keeping a person who isn’t in your life on your feed can keep you “emotionally tethered to them,” and watching them move on – however curated it may be – can be painful, Hoffman adds. But there are times when moving on from a relationship isn’t as simple as hitting “unfollow,” particularly if one shares children, work or finances with an ex.

“Publicly unfollowing an ex might create more discomfort than following them,” she adds. “A good option is to snooze their posts until you have an opportunity to get some distance and closure. That way they don’t know that you are blocking them but you are protecting yourself from seeing hurtful posts.”

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