Surviving The Break-Up Blues

Surviving the Breakup Blues

Medic! It doesn't matter if it happened last month — the emotional wounds are still fresh. Let us help you recover with 12 commonsense tips and our own unpatented Breakup Survival Kit. We'll have you humming a different tune in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

Q&A: How Do I Avoid the Rebound Trap?

By Sheila Ellison

How do you know if it's love or rebound? Maybe it just feels a lot better than the hurt. Maybe it's just a soft body to break your fall. Read psychologist Sheila Ellison's take and learn how to run "maybe" out of your life.

"If He Was 'So Great,' You'd Still Be Together"

By Greg Behrendt & Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt

Have you ever heard of Romance Revisionist
Disorder (RRD)? Symptoms include total blindness
to the glaring faults of your ex. Treatment:
Read this excerpt from the book "It's Called
a Breakup Because It's Broken" by best-selling
author Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt.

Stories From Splitsville

We asked our members to send us their breakup stories. They flooded us with tales that covered the entire spectrum – from breakups via text message to mysterious disappearances to the old classic, “I came home from work early to find…” It turns out there is absolutely no shortage of gut-wrenching heartache in this world.