Friend so upset her new boyfriend has dumped her

Well i can`t add anything that hasn`t been advised by you Gransnetters.

I think your friend built too much on the relationship far too fast. Young or old, most people have brief relationships, while searching for the right long term relationship. And while some relationships where there is a great disparity of age flourish. In the eary stages I think these have a higher failure rate than most.

All you can do at the moment is comfort your friend, but further down the line encourage her not to build too much on any relationship in the early stages.

Unfortunately I doubt they will get back together again, the new girlfriend works with him, and has now moved in with him. My friend is in her fifties, he was late thirties, and his new girlfriend is early twenties. I feel so sorry for her but there is nothing I can do but listen, thank you for your comments.

Well let’s hope they don’t get back together as if he can do it once he can certainly do it again
It can happen what ever age you are and the help is the same listen support and help eventually to move on
Better on your own than a user or abuser

Listen and do not criticize the boyfriend, they may get back together and it would spoil your friendship.

Thank you, it's the first relationship she has had since her divorce many years ago, she is devastated. I'll just listen and sympathise, it obviously helped her to talk. I feel so sorry, she's a very lovely person.

I think that all you can do is to listen and sympathise, Life teaches us that in time she will move on but until then give her some support.

What a shallow man! A friend's mum always used to say 'What's meant for you, won't go by you.' And I have to say, I look back at my life, and see how most things that happened, happened for the best.

Yes there is, if it's not right for him then it's not right for her! He's done her a favour and someone much nicer will come along.

Not very helpful of her ‘friends’ to say that to her, especially as they might get back together again.
All you can do is commiserate, be sympathetic and tell her that she was too good for him.

No, not really, just be a sympathetic listener is my advice, at the moment that’s all you can do anyway ( with Covid.)