What is LESS painful: a broken heart or a broken leg?

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annabelle p

A broken heart concerns emotion while a broken leg is a physical pain. While emotional pain can be controlled with the will of a mind, physical pain cannot be controlled except when one takes medication to ease the pain. I think it really depends on the individual. .. on how one is strong or weak to take in the physical pain and endure while it lasts. Others may find a broken heart really terrible and can't withstand the numbing pain within, the reason why others end their suffering by ending their lives.

Anyway, for me, a broken heart is less painful.

fritz

for me a broken heart...i'm a canine...a broken leg is not only excruciatingly painful it would also render me inutile to chase fire engines for days and days...bummer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bopols

Depends on how fast the broken something heals.

I have a friend who had a broken heart who got into another hot relationship in 2 weeks, in fact feeling that the break-up was heaven-sent. That she didn't have to sing "It is sad to belong to someone else when the right one comes along". Because the right one (the better one) came along almost in the heels of the breakup. Apparently, the guy was patiently waiting for his turn to go after this girl of his dreams. He didn't court the girl before, respecting the previous relationship.

Now, a broken leg would hurt more painfully, and longer than the pain of her (short-term) broken heart.

Rode|ette Û©

a broken heart is less painful

if broken arms can fade a dream, same thing with broken legs. my heart can handle any pain... faded dreams will kill me.

Cher

For me broken heart is less painful than broken leg..
I can stand the pain of a broken heart as long as I have my family and friends with me..

I am more vulnerable physically. I wince even on small cuts or bruises so what more a broken leg?

Country lover

I think my reaction will be the same for both.

however a broken leg can be healed in 6 months.
a broken heart? it will take longer. it may even be forever.

sweet water

I have broken bones in my body and my heart has been broken a few times too, so I can say with certainty that a broken heart is less painful.

I can't dull that physical pain, and its magnitude never decreases every time injury is sustained and the pain is inflicted. But hurt lessens at each instance of a broken heart, because the heart grows stronger and becomes pain-tolerant.

diwata

To me, it is a broken heart because to love is a choice and we have to face its consequences while a broken leg is an accident which is uncontrollable. When you have a broken heart you can still move around and enjoy life while with a broken leg, you are "static" till it heals. The thought of having a light steel on you is not easy to accept because it entails pain especially when cold. Who would like a broken leg. It is very expensive in job and opportunity lost because you are forced to take a leave and stay alone and bear the difficulties alone especially if no one to assist and comfort you. Nobody would help you to heal your leg, you have to take care of the healing alone or else it might be amputated and it is the worst thing to happen. At present, I have a broken leg but not many got it to bear the damage forever. Almost all of us have experienced a broken heart, may experience it time again and again depending on our choice in life.

Goethe

Broken leg, except for the phantom pains. Broken hearts sometimes never mend.

Adam

A broken leg can heal. And you can take painkillers for it.

Broken hearts can last forever. And no, alcohol isn't what I consider to be a "painkiller."

Zef H

Having had both I would say a broken leg. After it was set it stopped hurting. A broken heart hurts for much longer.

Eighteen Ten

Well, both could heal in time, if given proper treatment.. You'd scream in pain, or you'd coil in despair and cry yourself to sleep..

But If I may ask back, Why do some take their own life over a heartbreak, but not on a broken limb? Makes me wonder..

Kojak

If you have a broken leg.......you can medicate the pain and it will heal in a relatively sort time...... the memory will fade.

If you have a broken heart.......no medication takes away the pain........it can take years for you to recover...... fear of another broken heart can change how we relate to others affecting your entire life.

Obviously a broken leg "hurts" less.

skeptic

broken leg... when it heals its as good as new... no misery... no memory...

Bato

I haven't had a broken leg so I can't tell.

Probably I'll go with the broken heart. There are many girls out there who will love me, but I only have one pair of legs.

bunbananabun

less painful is broken heart.. because when you sleep u can just forget it for the moment. yest when u have broken leg u wake up and feel the intense pain.. throbbing throbbing.

ermmm but i guess it's hard to distinguish which is really less painful cos it's emotional vs physical pain.

puzzeled

With a broken leg, you know that it will heal and the pain will go away in a short amount of time.
With a broken heart,in time, the pain may go away, but, the heart, once broken, can never fully mend.

fox

Less painful than a broken heart? A broken leg, a fractured skull, a knife in the stomach, kidney stones, a white hot needle poked into your eyeball, Having you tongue ripped out of your face with pliers, kicked in the groin and last but not least.......having a hatchet go right through your face.

katrina_097

i think the broken leg
because it is easier to heal a broken leg than a broken heart... heheh

RedRose

What is less painful?
Emotionally it's the broken heart. They say that time heals all the pain, do they? Maybe if you have the right formula to cure the pain, it will help ease the pain quickly. But no such thing, no guarantee when will the pain go away. That must be a complete luck.
Physical is broken leg. Ouch that is real pain where you need a real doctor to help you. A matter of healing process but there is a certain end of recovering.

It's not the less pain that wil make a person more appreciating, or glad, we just wish we don't have to experience such pain at all in our life.

Baby0219

Broken legs, they heal sooner or later. A broken heart hurts for a very long time and sometimes never heals and once your heart is truely broken you will never be the same person again.

AK0SiMEa

Broken Hearts!!! I want to keep my Legs.......
A broken heart heals quickly and family and friends can mend it. A broken leg cost much on healing and your body will have to mend it......
No matter How many times I've been broken hearted, I'm still going to be thankful that I don't have broken legs..........

E-ROCK

HUUMMMMM...
Well I got both of my legs broke last year. It bothers me every day, and will for the rest of my life 6lbs. of metal will do that to you. Hearts heal

Purple Tactics

There is no anesthetic for a broken heart...

... except maybe a cannabis-session.

purple & pink

I would prefer a broken leg. ;-)

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