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Sorry, But There's No Such Thing As A Toolkit For Heartbreak

Friday 14th February 2025, 12:28PM


How long does it take to get over a breakup?Recommend me a heartbreak playlist?What’s the best food to eat when you have a broken heart?When my last relationship ended, I absolutely bombarded Google – and my longsuffering friends – with questions like this. My life had never felt so turbulent – in the space of an evening I not only had nowhere to live but also had no idea what the coming weeks, months, years – hey, the rest of my life – were going to look like.   If that sounds overdramatic, it’s meant to.Believe me, I was astonished – and perhaps a little embarrassed – at how in-pieces I was. I knew that breakups happened to everyone. I knew that by most standards, mine was a decent one – reasonably mutual, no terrible behaviour on either side, definitely the right thing. And I knew – I promise I knew – that a relationship was only one part of a full and interesting and joyful life. Yet I genuinely felt like I cannot and will not cope with how awful this is.Enter the very specific questions.It’s interesting, looking back, how much I was hoping I could gamify my way out of heartbreak. That if I followed the right

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