You have may have noticed that there's something different in the air lately — the crisp scent of fall decay, a little cinnamon spice, and the odd sensation that your significant other suddenly despises the existence of your face. That's right, it's Breakup Season, that tenuous handful of weeks just up to the holidays…
Axl Rose's ex is auctioning off some of the Guns N' Roses singer's love letters. Take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are petty.
I’m a 28-year-old professional, and my relationship of five years recently ended. The breakup was friendly, mature, heart breaking and complicated. His family was my family. We had shared assets to divvy up, an apartment to set a timeline on moving out of, and long-formed habits to break like talking to each other…
One silver lining of getting your feelings stomped all over, is that post-heartbreak, people tend to be forgiving if you must cope by acting like a shithead for awhile. And while there are plenty of ways to act like a self-destructive mess in the wake of a traumatic life event — drinking excessively, crying…
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When it comes to getting over a breakup, you can be a paragon of badassery, restraint, high-roadism and all-around transcendence, or you can be a mopey trainwreck who lies around feeling like shit, trudging the slow road to recovery in real time. But like everything in the world now, if it's all too much to handle,…
Getting dumped is the shittiest of the shit. After all, someone you really like, or possibly even love, has just told you that the last thing they want to keep looking at is your dumb face. Or maybe you already can't stand the fucker — it still sucks when they beat you to the finish line. And this is why it's no…
We all know Valentine's Day is a bunch of bullshit, and many of us with partners aren't celebrating because it's stupid and also, we have work and families and stuff. However, it's still kinda fun to get upset about forced consumerism in the name of romance, right? Many of us are always looking for a way to rage…
Take that, therapists: journaling after a breakup makes it harder to move on, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Arizona thought that particularly "ruminative" patients could benefit from writing out all of their feelings in explicit detail like a 14-year-old LiveJournal poet. (More on those in a …
Russell Crowe and his wife of nine years, the Australian musician Danielle Spencer, are splitting up after nine years of marriage according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Crowe has been quite the busy-body, jetting back and forth between Australia and the States to film seven movies, including a biblical epic about…
It's been less than 24 hours since Amy Poehler and Will Arnett announced
Love is...well, love is a lot of things, none of which are efficient, easy or safe. It may even be a myth, created by Aphrodite to make sure that her smarter, more career-oriented sister Athena didn't get all credit for everything awesome in the world. According to some end-of-summer ruminations on romance courtesy of …
Rielle Hunter was interviewed on today's Good Morning America, where she announced that she and John Edwards broke two weeks ago. Oh, no! They were supposed to be our forever-couple! Remember at prom, how cute they looked together when they slow danced and how he whispered something in her ear and we didn't know what…
Seeing as I am neither an oil baron nor a trophy wife (yet), I've never given much thought to the idea of prenuptial agreements. Those are for people with elevators in their houses and gold-plated-robot-monkey-butlers, right? (It's like a regular monkey-butler but golder and without all the feces.) Those are for dukes, …
One of the worst parts of a breakup is when you come to from the initial crying and yelling and flouncing off and realize that your can opener/DVD player/French dictionary/pants are still at your now-ex's house. Or that you are unwillingly in possession of your until-recently-beloved's crap. Luckily, we have some tips…
You may know from personal experience that getting back together with an ex can be bad news, but now there's science to back this up. One researcher has found that couples in "cyclical relationships" tend to have more problems — and worse marriages.
A new study shows that for low-income couples, moving into separate homes doesn't necessarily mean a breakup. And staying together — even if they don't live together — can be good for the kids.
There may be tears around the dinner table tomorrow; as any campus psychologist can tell you, Thanksgiving is "turkey drop" time. The term famously refers to the holiday break-up, when college students who've been in long-distance relationships return home and end things with their sweethearts. The stereotypical "turkey…
A woman in Houston is being charged with felony stalking after calling her ex boyfriend over 1,000 times in three months, breaking his kitchen window with a five-foot sword, and documenting her heartbreak on a rambling blog dedicated how she couldn't understand why that goddamn bastard didn't love her anymore.
After 13 years of marriage characterized by both individual and tandem interviews about how their marriage is so awesome, it's rumored that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have decided to go their separate ways. [Update: Since publication, they've released a denial. But our point still stands.] To a casual observer,…
A breakup is obviously tough on the couple involved — but if you're friends with them, you face a social minefield of your own. Here's how to navigate it with a minimum of strife.
Appearing on The Marriage Ref seemed like good, clean, incredibly hokey fun when Howie Kohlenberg agreed to appear on the premiere episode with his wife Christine. Now a year later, he says she's walked out on their 14-year marriage and 4-year-old son, and "Jerry, Mr. Billionaire, I blame. And his show." Kohlenberg tells …
Crystal Harris's very first wedding — and Hugh Hefner's third — had been scheduled for Saturday, but now it may never happen. According to reports, the Playboy Playmate of the Month (December 2009) got into a fight with Hef over the phone. After she hung up, she promptly packed and moved out.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced today that they're separating after 25 years of marriage. They released this statement to the L.A. Times:
Recently, some asshole posted nude photos of his ex, who had committed the unforgivable sin of breaking up with him and then dating someone else three months later, on an online message board. There is already a script to this: The ex's sob story alongside the pictures, the aggressively jaded evaluation by the men of…
"It's not about being vindictive," says 26-year-old Taylor. "Maybe initially I was getting back at him, but now I don't feel that way. It's fun. I find this all to be very therapeutic, very liberating." She says the nudity's a response to his controlling insistence on her modesty. So far she's grossed $1,000.
Yesterday Facebook disabled an app that sent users email whenever their friends changed their relationship status. The company said it removed the app as part of an automatic system to protect users against spam — but they may also have taken into account its general creepiness. Now you have to go back to stalking…
Valentine's Day, the holiest, chocolatiest, and hopefully most oral sex intensive of holidays is upon us, and love is in the air. Except when it's not.
