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The Best of The Breakup Chronicles
We all know breaking up sucks. Whether you’re the dumper or the dumpee, the end of a relationship is difficult at best. But what we sometimes forget is that breakups can also be freeing and fabulous! They allow us to learn and grow and eventually move on with our lives. My website www.BreakupChronicles.com features true life tales of how breaking up with the wrong person can be the right thing to do. Here are some of my favorite excerpts from the stories submitted to the site in the last year:
“I never liked roller coasters. The slow panic-inducing ascent followed by the fast, seemingly out-of-control descent repeated over and over until the ride finally ends. It usually leaves me with a big headache and a queasy stomach. Then I met Mr. Ex…�
- A Roller Coaster Romance
“We met under the most surreal circumstances. In person. At a non-singles event. Just out in the open. No help from the internet or a matchmaker or eight minutes of casual conversation followed by a bell. How very Last Millennium.�
- Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. Just Don’t Break My Heart, Part One
“Reason #1 for the Breakup
Sex with Mr. Ex was fantasy sex. Not every day sex. Before you call me crazy, keep reading. I don’t know anyone who wants the same sexual fantasy fulfilled night after night after night. Even when you mix up the fantasy with rope, whipped cream, and naked magic tricks.�
- Tie Me Up. Tie Me Down. Part Deux
“The day I learned I was a dumb shit was the same day that Ms. Ex and I almost got matching tattoos. This was our attempt to re-ignite, for all the wrong reasons, a fizzled romance that had ended two years prior.�
- It’s The Shoes, Dumb Shit
“Ex-boyfriends are like black tar heroin. You can’t have just a little.�
- Kicking the Habit
“Something in me had changed. What had once seemed safe and controllable now felt stale and tiresome. I was bored with ‘yours and mine’ and I wanted to get to the business of ‘us.’ I was ready to share my life with someone. I was ready to grow up.�
- Thirty-six and Single. Again.
“On occasion, when I feel melancholy about oh-so-many short-term relationships, I mentally list things I learned to appreciate as a result of dating around: jazz, snowshoeing, hiking, Gilbert and Sullivan, art gallery openings, cowboy poetry, drumming, various musical artists, and (mmmmm) massage techniques. My life is richer and spicier thanks to the variety.�
- The Gift of Many Breakups
“A jet black Harley-Davidson bandanna hangs on my bedroom wall to serve as a reminder of my triumph. Never again, will I wait for the telephone to ring so that Mr. Ex can apologize for hitting me the night before.�
- Heart Of Glass
“I knew early into the relationship that he was an addict. Although in his circle, they called themselves collectors. Addict, collector, fanatic. Call it what you will. But in my book, anyone who camps outside overnight to see a movie needs help.�
- The Force Wasn’t With Us
“On the national spectrum of good-looking men, Mr. Ex would probably fall in at about a five. On this remote resort’s spectrum of good-looking men, Mr. Ex leaped to a whopping nine. He had all his teeth, a full head of hair, some rippling muscles, and the flirty confidence of Tom Cruise.â€?
- Happily Ever After
Lisa Steadman is the site creator and editor of www.BreakupChronicles.com featuring true life tales of how breaking up with the Wrong person was the Right thing to do.
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It is really hard to break up especially when the relationship is a serious one. Ofcourse it will hurt at first but you need to move on and face the reality that you are not meant for each other.
I have learned a lot when I broke up with my first boyfriend just last week and now, i am starting to like and enjoy my being single. It’s not that I have all the freedom. It’s just that, my attention was focused on other things that I didn’t notice needs attention when I was with him.
Comment by crystal — November 24, 2005 @ 12:12 pm