The 'Killing Me Softly' Story - made a worldwide hit by Lauryn Hill and the Fugees, it starts with a Don McLean concert in Los Angeles ... ...which was attended by a young singer-songwriter named Lori Lieberman, who told .... Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel about the feeling .... .... then is picked up by Roberta Flack .... and then covered by The Fugees, with Lauryn Hill's vocals - and they ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to MeFi by the man of twists and turns at 11:10 PM on June 7, 2018

How many days/hours should pass before one can safely assume that one has been ghosted? For the purpose of this question, please assume the standard ghosting hallmarks, that there was regular contact which the assumed-ghoster simply ceased, that the assumed-ghoster is active on other social media such as the dating site (and clearly isn't in hospital or jail), and that these are still early days ... ghosting is still an 'acceptable' breakup method. When is it safe for one to block and move on? As a general rule? ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Capt. Renault at 6:59 AM on March 13, 2018

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

You live near but not with your long-term partner, with whom you have a loving, stable marriage-like commitment but no plans for future cohabitation. How do you coordinate your lives together, especially if they're super-duper intertwined? What do you keep at each other's houses? How do you navigate the low-key logistics of plan-making together? Give me your advice, tell me your tales and ... now slightly less so? (To head off any speculation re living separately as the precursor for a breakup, it's not; we're in an intense, expensive ...
posted to Ask MeFi by tapir-whorf at 12:10 PM on February 8, 2018

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

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'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 broke up with a guy after five months because he wasn't fully committing to the relationship, but in retrospect I think I acted impulsively because I was afraid he was losing interest and about to reject me. We've hung out twice since the break up and both times were amazing. I want to get back with him but he no longer will commit to being exclusive. Is there any hope of getting back into an ... with him? I wrote about this situation in a previous question, in the more immediate wake of the breakup. I'm a 32 year old woman, was dating a 35 ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 8:20 PM on June 25, 2017

I ended a complicated and messy friendship a few days ago, and now I'm a wreck. I'm having enormous trouble processing my feelings and understanding where all of it is coming from, accepting that I've made my decision, and moving on. Did I overreact? Did I make a mistake? What should I be learning from this? What questions should I be asking myself? What else am I missing? I cut things off with my ... about it from a mutual friend. T and I hung out a little while after that and talked about his breakup, but I didn't want to bring up the possibility ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 12:30 PM on June 24, 2017

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

'The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was snatching body positivity out of the hands of fat women and then convincing them it was never theirs in the first place.' Writing for Dazed, fatshion blogger Bethany Rutter dissects the ways in which the body positive movement has been 'co-opted by [Instagram] models and fashion labels to reject bodies it should celebrate'. [TW: discussion of ... (keyword in HTML)
posted to MeFi by thetarium at 9:49 AM on April 28, 2017

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

Brief summary: do you have any anecdata (or actual data!) on whether a person can move from seeking validation from external sources (e.g. romantic partners) to seeking validation from internal sources (e.g. developing a solid, positive self-image, achieving personal goals), and HOW this is best achieved? More inside... My partner of nine years and I recently broke up. One of the maaaaany painful ... I learned during the breakup was that, 1. I seek MOST of my personal validation from my romantic partners, and, 2. This ...
posted to Ask MeFi by julthumbscrew at 12:01 PM on March 31, 2017

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

I can't believe I'm starting this thread. I can't believe that I came home tonight to the most gloriously Metafiltery of Secret Quonsar gifts! Late 2015 and all of 2016 was a really challenging time for me when a friendship / sort of crush on my part (realized only belatedly) ended suddenly and without any warning at all. It hurt (still hurts). It was the community here that kept me going--I ... I reviewed every relationship/breakup Ask Metafilter post since the beginning (thank you, dear MeFites, for sharing your ...
posted to MetaTalk by apartment dweller at 9:57 PM on November 14, 2016

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

I left a physically, verbally, and emotionally abusive relationship for the second time a couple months ago. It was the first romantic relationship i ever had, lasting from when i was 16 until March of this year (I am 40). I need some help. So more than half my life. Our 20th wedding anniversary was in May. The last time I left him a couple years ago (actually asked him to leave) it only lasted ... over the missing them part and the grief over giving up on something? I've never had a romantic breakup period so i suspect it's hitting me twice as ...
posted to Ask MeFi by TestamentToGrace at 8:12 PM on June 9, 2016

The man who composed the soundtracks to cult video games Mother and Earthbound, Keiichi Suzuki, has a crazy-ass pop duo. It's more wonderful than you would ever expect. Unless, of course, you know Suzuki already for his other new band, Controversial Spark, whose Hello Mutant is the best Rock Band song not available on Rock Band, and whose other work is pretty much a continuing succession of ... amount of concert footage which sums up their career from the early 70s through their 2011 breakup. The material's uneven, but some of it's fantastic, ...
posted to MeFi by rorgy at 10:47 PM on April 19, 2016

When is it appropriate to set a boundary regarding how much time you spend dealing with your friends’ romantic turmoil? And how do you set healthy boundaries? I’m not referring to things like supporting a friend through a breakup, but, rather, more ongoing situations. More inside. I’m 33 and have been single for quite a while, though I have dated recently. The friends I’m thinking about are around ...
posted to Ask MeFi by mermaidcafe at 9:12 PM on October 6, 2015

Getting divorced in Illinois. I still love my husband, but cannot remain married to him for many reasons, one of which being that I can no longer take care of him emotionally and financially without ruining my own life. My first instinct was to try to settle this using mediation or collaborative divorce (I don't even understand 100% what this is, honestly). Mostly because I feel enormously guilty ... and am more able to pay. He also said that he thinks he's going to end up getting screwed in the breakup. This is the point when a tiny voice in my ...
posted to Ask MeFi by Anonymous at 12:06 PM on September 3, 2015