What r/BreakUps is talking about this week

Something I’ve realised after my breakup is that sometimes you don’t just miss the person. You miss the life you had imagined with them. You miss the little things you never actually got to...

Ex dumped me 6+ months ago via text, I went no contact immediately after. It broke my heart, but I grieved, hit the gym, and kept moving forward. We both lived in the same apartment building so I...

No contact works in the sense of, it gives the other person time and space to feel their feelings and work through their thoughts and emotions and also for you to heal from the betrayal and...

Ten full years. She was my first and only girlfriend, and the only person I’ve ever been with. We went through everything together, school graduations, family deaths, you name it. Her family was...

I read a lot about people wanting their exes back and I get it, I am one of them. I get that it comes from feelings of loneliness and desire, but I have now been in the situation twice already...

It's been six weeks since the breakup and I haven't been this lonely my entire adult life. I had kind of been neglecting my friendships during the relationship and I've sort of forgotten how to...

I'm one month into complete no-contact after a four-year relationship. The first few weeks were genuinely horrible. Constant overthinking, checking social media, replaying old conversations,...

This is a first for me. Usually when I fall out of love with someone, the intimacy was the first to go. I hate my ex so much. He is a terrible, entitled person. The very definition of a taker. But...

1. They never reach out, genuinely the optimal result. If they never reach out to you, you will never have to make the very difficult decision of letting them back into your life. It gives you the...

Hi everyone, just wanted to give a little update. It's been over two months since I last had contact with my ex, and honestly, I don't think there's been a single day, let alone a single second,...