The Museum of Broken Relationships. "Before flying to Zagreb, I’d put out a call to my friends—What object would you donate to this museum?—and got descriptions I couldn’t have imagined: a mango candle, a penis-shaped gourd, the sheet music from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto no. 3, a clamshell drilled by a dental student, an illustration from a children’s book that an ex had loved when he was ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to MeFi by storybored at 9:40 PM on February 20, 2018

The Great American Breakup Political scientist Louis Hartz accurately described the United States’ underlying cultural hyperindividualism. Is the next logical step the dissolution of the centralized federal state to become more like the EU? In which the author lays out a description of the American present: While our cities burn in America’s latest “race” riots, the COVID-19 death toll ...
posted to MeFi by Verg at 9:53 PM on June 3, 2020

I just had a shitty breakup, and I don't survive post break-ups well. But the Hive is full of wise loving people who give good advice, so please share all the good Ask threads and comments you've seen and loved. I know ya'll have good things stashed away in your favorites.
posted to MetaTalk by Grandysaur at 1:45 AM on January 13, 2019

My four-year relationship with a person I expected to marry ended recently and suddenly. The decision was not mine. The reasons for its end are basically good ones, but I'm still devastated. Help me get through this with music. I'm 32, and a I have a six-year-old son from a previous relationship. I had been hoping to make a family with my former partner, and now that cannot be. I have plenty of ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to Ask MeFi by woodvine at 5:04 AM on June 15, 2017

What movies have helped you deal with a breakup? I'm going through a tough separation with an all-around uncertain future. I have found that a couple of "realistic" or at least sort of "insightful" breakup movies have helped. By this I mean movies in which the titular couple don't necessarily get back together, though a general sense of optimism is definitely happening. ...
posted to Ask MeFi by cmoj at 7:22 AM on January 17, 2019

I recently ended my relationship with a long-term, long-distance boyfriend and am having regrets. Did I do the right thing? I apologize, this may get disorganized. Basically, I'm looking for advice about my situation, as well as input from people who have been in similar situations. We are in our early 30s. We met several years ago while I was in his medium-sized Midwestern town, dated almost a ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 8:59 AM on September 7, 2017

I broke up with my girlfriend of nearly a year last night. We're 27. This was my first relationship, this was her severalth. I still love her, and she wanted to make things work still, but I didn't. I don't know if I made the right decision. I have a million questions, but the one I wanted to ask first was helping processing two things. (1) This sensation of "remembering the future that I will not ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 3:32 AM on February 28, 2019

I'm totally shaken after a breakup (and my response to it). What are some things I can do to regain my sense of self-respect and control, and feel emotionally safer? I'm in a kind of shock... It went from wonderful to nightmarish in a heartbeat. I don't know if this is too extreme a word for it, but I feel emotionally violated. (Not sure if this is a normal feeling after a breakup, because ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 1:29 AM on August 13, 2017

I recently ended a LDR that some of the people here on MeFi claimed was abusive. As I have travelled to see my boyfriend almost every weekend for the past year, I now find myself alone in the city with no friends or family. How do I deal with the breakup and rebuild my life all alone? (F, 26) I broke up with my boyfriend of almost 3 years. After graduating from the uni I moved to the city and we ...
posted to Ask MeFi by U.N.Owen at 11:08 AM on January 14, 2018

How to navigate early dating as an anxious person? Today a person I have been dating for a month told me she started seeing someone else and that there was something there she thought she wanted to pursue. She would also like to keep seeing me, though, but told me 'not to have any expectations'. I know this happens all the time, but I feel dejected. I had such high hopes and thought (and can't ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to Ask MeFi by Desertshore at 7:34 PM on November 30, 2020

Why is it that some people never seem to recover after a bad break-up or divorce? You know those people...the sort of "empty shell" folks who walk around perpetually sad or simply damaged in some way that keeps them frozen in place. I ask this question on behalf of myself--as I not-so-recently went through a break-up with a man I considered to be THE ONE--but also because I knew someone ... , I'm reasonably attractive and have a lot to offer; and I absolutely DON'T mention the breakup to new people that I meet, and yet, nearing the end of ...
posted to Ask MeFi by exploringoptimism at 9:28 AM on May 30, 2012

Rachel Brewson, Dating Editor, has written for xoJane and Thought Catalog, loves craft beer, the beach, and warm LA nights, and does not exist. The team of men behind Rachel Brewson, the fake woman whose breakup went viral.
posted to MeFi by Artw at 2:12 PM on October 4, 2016

Love and Breakup in the digital age....or, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" for Millennials. Written by, and starring, Cazzie David, Larry David's daughter. All four episodes are on youtube.
posted to MeFi by HuronBob at 3:06 PM on April 19, 2017

Mashable's series on digital dating. Jims looking for Pams, post-breakup pet custody and the glory days of Missed Connections. Here are the worst online dating behaviors and the "superfluous words we invented along the way to cope with the indignity of it all."
posted to MeFi by storytam at 10:35 AM on February 14, 2020

How Cold Water Swimming Cured my Broken Heart. "When I am in the sea I am a mystery to myself. I have no idea how I got here, or why or what I am doing. I am only swimming and I am amazed." After a breakup and the death of her father a writer ended up living on the coast of Brittany in winter where she went for a daily swim in the icy sea.
posted to MeFi by storybored at 6:04 PM on April 16, 2021

Over the past year, I have slowly been dumped by a friend... I think? Should I just let her go? How to deal with the hurt feelings? What questions should I be asking about my own role in the breakup? Not long ago, a friend, let's call her Lisa, stopped returning most of my communications and started breaking plans with me. A lot. We are both very, very busy, but it's gotten to the point now where ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 11:39 AM on July 21, 2009

I've never initiated a breakup before last night. We live together. What do we do? Last night, I told him I want to break up. We've been together for about a year and a half. We've lived together for nearly a year. (I know, it was really fast.) He is a wonderful person. I love him very much, but over the course of our relationship, I've realized that I am not interested in being in a relationship ...
posted to Ask MeFi by inging at 10:55 AM on June 4, 2008

More specifically, Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" sounds to my ears a lot like Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" ... The content is different, one's a breakup song and the other is aspirational but there's a mundane bouncy back-and-forth situation setting/listing of things to start and then there's a quick crescendo into the chorus. Is there a name for songs that work ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Roy Batty at 10:42 AM on April 3, 2024

Horrible breakup. Looking for fun pop music / musik / musique in other languages to stimulate my ears without having to know what's being said. I've been going through a horrible breakup. Ugh. I love music, but I find that listening to pop/rock/indie music in English often just makes me focus on what's going on. I could scour my iTunes library for fun stuff that I already have, but a lot of it ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Admiral Haddock at 1:54 PM on June 7, 2008

I'm going through a breakup that has been devastating to me and has shattered me. I loved her like no one, and I have loved in the past numerous times. I thought she was the one. Then she left. Any poems or short stories that capture what I'm feeling? How she can throw me away so easily?
posted to Ask MeFi by heliosanthus at 12:02 AM on February 8, 2017