Key Highlights:
- TikTok user @lovemk.xoxo, known as MK, described feeling “disgust” toward an ex’s behavior as a sign of moving on.
- Her video has received more than 1.4 million views and 2,100 comments.
- Commenters shared experiences involving indifference, embarrassment and frustration after past relationships ended.
MK Says Disgust Can Signal You Are Over an Ex
Getting over a past relationship can happen gradually. For TikTok user @lovemk.xoxo, who goes by MK on the platform, one of the later signs of moving on was no longer feeling hurt by the behavior that once caused emotional distress. Instead, she said, those same actions began to make her feel “disgust” and turn her off.
MK discussed the experience in a TikTok video that has attracted more than 1.4 million views and 2,100 comments. She clarified that she was not referring to a physical reaction when she used the word disgust.
“I don’t mean like you look at them and think you’re physically disgusted,” MK begins in the video. “It’s more like the same behaviors that used to hurt your feelings. They used to make you question yourself, that made you feel like you weren’t good enough or had you over explaining yourself for the 50th time.”
According to MK, her perspective changed when the same behavior stopped making her question what she had done wrong. She said she no longer focused on why her former partner was treating her that way and instead began asking herself why she continued to tolerate or engage with the behavior.
“It just turns you off and you stop asking, ‘Why are they doing this to me?’”
MK said that shift helped her recognize that she had moved on from the relationship. She described reaching a point where her response was no longer centered on sadness or the desire to be understood.
“It wasn’t about being sad anymore. It wasn’t about being heard,” she explains. “It was just realizing that they were a loser.”
What TikTok Commenters Said About Moving On
MK continued by arguing that some people are limited by their own level of self-awareness and personal development. She said trying to make someone recognize their own behavior eventually gave way to deciding she did not want to deal with that person anymore.
“can only meet you as far as they’ve met themselves.”
“Instead of trying to get them to see themselves for who they really are, you just get turned off by who they really are and you decide that you do not wanna deal with them at all whatsoever,” MK says.
Many commenters said they recognized the emotional shift MK described. One user focused on the realization that a former partner’s character had become clear:
“Disgusted by their character! You realize it once their true identity shows,”
Another commenter described indifference as a different form of moving on:
“So true the opposite of love is not hate, it’s actually just indifference.”
Other users described feeling embarrassed about their past relationships or frustrated that they had not recognized unhealthy dynamics sooner. One commenter wrote:
“Embarrassment that I was ever with that person and doing the mental gymnastics he had me doing,”
The responses reflected a range of reactions after a relationship ends, including indifference, embarrassment and frustration. In MK’s case, the defining change was that behavior that once caused emotional pain no longer prompted the same emotional response and instead made her decide she did not want further involvement.
Why This Matters
The discussion shows how people use different terms to describe the process of moving on from a relationship. MK’s video presents emotional detachment as a change in the questions someone asks: rather than trying to understand an ex’s behavior or seeking validation, a person may begin evaluating why they continue to accept it.
The Daily Dot was unable to independently verify the experiences described in the video. The account is based solely on TikTok user @lovemk.xoxo’s description of how she realized she had moved on from a past relationship and no longer felt the same emotional response to her ex’s behavior.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is MK?
MK is the name used on TikTok by @lovemk.xoxo, the creator who shared the video about recognizing when she was over a past relationship.
What did MK describe as a sign of moving on?
MK said that behavior that once hurt her feelings eventually stopped making her question herself. Instead, it turned her off and made her question why she continued to entertain it.
How did TikTok users respond?
Commenters shared experiences involving disgust toward a former partner’s character, indifference, embarrassment and frustration about unhealthy relationship dynamics.