I am lucky to be a person that immediately sees the good in a breakup and wishes their Ex all the success and happiness in the world… I’m just kidding; I’m pretty much a basketcase until I’m ready to let it go. There are of course different stages of a breakup, and for me it went, denial, sadness, anger, acceptance and rebounding.

1. Denial
   1. Pretend the breakup isn’t actually happening
   2. Tell only close select friends that the breakup has occurred
   3. Tell yourself that he will change his mind
   4. Talk about it endlessly with close friends trying to figure when he will call and apologize
   5. Leave all pictures, facebook and desk photos intact
2. Sadness
   1. Cry
   2. Change profile picture and take down desk photo
   3. Cry more, but this time awkwardly in public
   4. Stare at phone, mentally willing him to text you
   5. Don’t eat, then finally eat and demolish entire veggie party platter
   6. Listen to all the songs that remind you of the relationship
3. Anger
   1. Talk about how he never appreciated you
   2. Drink prosecco to try to feel fabulous
   3. After too much prosecco, passive aggressively ‘like’ his changed profile photo
   4. After he unfriends you, send him insane text messages channeling all the rage of 1,000 feminists.
   5. Angry cry
   6. Feel like you could be heading for your own episode of Dateline
4. Acceptance
   1. Drink Bailey’s with coffee
   2. Have sense of inner calm
   3. Laugh about insane text messages
   4. Buy new Taylor Swift album and listen to it on repeat
   5. Get asked by neighbour to “please keep it down” while jamming to Taylor Swift at 8am.
   6. Inform neighbour of the circumstances surrounding the breakup
   7. Get blessing from neighbour to continue to sing loudly
5. Rebounding
   1. Inform little black book of newly single status
   2. Book girls getaway at fancy hotel
   3. Find clothing previously deemed ‘too low cut’ to be acceptable
   4. Rock red lipstick
   5. Accidentally get red lipstick on fingers and then wipe hands on white shirt thinking it was white napkin
   6. Move on