Wednesday, 6 April 2016

The Break Up Blog

Another fun part of adulting - Failed relationships!!! I was recently ‘involved’ with someone for the best part of five months. It didn’t end traumatically, my heart wasn’t shattered into a billion pieces and I wasn’t a hopeless mess – it was more just a bit of a shame, and it all came to a very amicable and mature end (first time for everything I suppose). 


My two (now ex) housemates, also had break ups in the time we lived together, and I thought it would be interesting to draw comparisons on how people deal with break ups differently. Bearing in mind the three break ups themselves were very different – one was the end to a 5 year relationship, the other an on / off 2-and-a-bit year relationship, and mine, the nearly-five-months-wasn’t-really-official ‘relationship’. 


Living with someone means you get the pleasure of being witness to every tear, tantrum and grimy detail of how people cope. 


Spoiler alert – there was a lot of wine involved in all three of our recovery periods!

 

The nearly-five-months-wasn’t-really-official ‘relationship’

Don’t shave your legs for well over a month
Drink daily
Hold off from getting tinder because you know it is both a waste of data and also life
Download tinder
Get messages like this

Go on tinder date on steak and blow job day 
Give the guy steak and get his hopes up
- Dont give him a blow job
Laugh at guy you didn’t give blow job to with your friends
Get your sister pissed and make her download tinder
Tinder swipe for your sister
Consider other dating apps but then remember how many times you were offered money to do porn on OK cupid that time you downloaded it for 24 hours
Go on nights out and spend too much money on drinks and forget about the £150 gas and electric bill you haven’t paid for 2 and a half months
Panic over gas and electric bill
Realise you have distracted yourself from break up by causing yourself anxiety about gas and electric bill

It worked for me!


The five year relationship 

Initially cope shockingly well and baffle everyone around you
Milk it a bit at work so you get to go home half way through the day and watch ex on the beach
Stalk ex boyfriend intensely on every form of social media
Consider career as private detective because you’re so fucking good at stalking ex boyfriend on social media
Download tinder
Go on Tinder date with minor celeb
Document Tinder date with minor celeb on social media and make sure privacy settings are set to public, in hope ex boyfriend will see
Dump minor celeb from Tinder
Go on literally 1000 dates
- Make sure a decent proportion of these 1000 men are from work
- Give zero fucks when the men from work find out you've been dating all of them
Dump all 1000 men and feel like fucking super woman 
Snog a guy in front of someone who you know likes you, just for lols
Get extremely drunk
Go home extremely drunk and run a bath
Get in bath
Vomit all over self in bath
Snapchat vommy bath to friends
Fuck everything off and move to South America

Definitely worked for her


The on / off 2-and-a-bit year relationship

Immediately get drunk
Cry loudly
Call ex whilst drunk and crying loudly
Accidentally sit on housemates cat and almost break its neck
Argue loudly with housemate
Cry even more loudly
Call mum whilst crying loudly
Be fine the next day and immediately download tinder
Tinder at every spare possible second
Go on tinder date and fall in instant love
Profess new found love to anyone that will listen
Get bored after 2 days
Go to gay bar 
Get extremely drunk
Fall in instant love with the first person you see
Get bored after half an hour and find someone else
Meet up with ex as ‘friends’
Twice
Get back together with ex

I suppose that worked for him too?


Break ups suck, and so does dating at times. I can’t explain how close I am to giving up all together and just getting several more cats. Will keep the blog updated with any more colourful dates I may go on, Tinder Tales part 3 coming soon! I also downloaded Bumble, was thinking when I have some stories together of doing a ‘Bumble Fumbles’ post? No? Ok, I’ll work on the title… I suppose I should be grateful really, I mean if I was in a successful functioning relationship what the fuck would I write about?! How dull!


Happy adulating peeps!

 

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