Helping a friend get over a break up. I need answers asap please?

My friend just got dumped by his girlfriend and when he get's off work he is going to come over and to talk about it and be comforted. However, I am very bad with helping people with these kinds of things. When friends cry around me, I get awkward and don't know what to say or how to help. He is a very sensitive person. We are in college and his girlfriend went to another school so I don't personally know her or much about their relationship. Any advice for me?Helping a friend get over a break up. I need answers asap please?
If he does cry, just rub him (in a comfortable place). Tell him to let it all out and say that you will always be there for him. Let him know, he still has you. Just treat him kindly and try to get his mind away from his girlfriend. Also tell him that he's a great person!Helping a friend get over a break up. I need answers asap please?
Well you need to comfort him. Tell him that its not his fault, and that if anyone is stupid enough to break up with him, then shes not worth going out with. Focus a bit on this topic. Its true isn't it? Keep telling him that its ok and that there are plenty more girls out there. Telling them this (its not his fault, and that if anyone is stupid enough to break up with him, then shes not worth going out with) usually makes them feel better.
listen to him. let him talk it all out, no matter what he says. comfort him, let him know you are there for him. let him talk about the negative things in the relationship, how it is better for him to be out of it. make him feel like it was a good thing that happened. long distance is tough, doesn't work out most of the time. he will find another. once you feel like he has said what he needed to say, help him move on. take him out, coffee, park, mall, bars, whatever you do for fun. get him interested in new things to get his mind off of it, show him that other girls will want to be with him, open that idea.


main things; listen, focus on moving on, do things to get it off his mind, let him know there are other girls.


but don't force it all too much, hit to the ideas, and let him form them as well. most of all, be there. you don't have to do much really.


people crying can be weird to be around, i know, but listen and try to make him smile. that's what he needs most.
From what you just said it sounds like your already doing what you need to, and by that I mean just being there for them. Don't worry about what to say just listen, let them do the talking it'll make them feel better and if you want to comfort them more try touching them, hugging or patting them, just gentle contact but word of advice, try to avoid cliche sayings like there plenty more fish in the sea or you'll get over it.





Really they just need someone to talk too and all you need to do is just listen to them, they'll appreciate it more than you trying to interfere or fix things.
Just listen to what he has to say and the responses will come off naturally. Think about what your going to say before you say it though, because trust me it can be a pain if you say the wrong thing.
The best thing you can do is to LISTEN, and refrain from using cliches about how it wasn't meant to be, etc. Just use empathetic statements and let him know you'll still be there for him no matter how low he feels.