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5 Stages of Breaking Up: As Told By the Little Rascals

Liz Messina
Sep 09, 2015
Auburn University
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5 Stages of Breaking Up: As Told By the Little Rascals

Stage 1: Sadness

You may or may not be dying from a broken heart, and you’re pretty convinced that your eyes are gonna fall out from crying so much. So where exactly is the nearest doctor?

Of course you’re sad. You feel like you’ve lost your best friend or your soul mate. You’re crushed that you gave so much time and love to someone who’s gone now, and you feel like your whole world is ending.

Stage 2: Anger


Eventually, your sadness starts to disappear and is replaced with anger. You realize that you’ve been led on or lied to or wronged, and you’re not happy. How dare they hurt you like that?

You start to get more and more angry with your ex, and tell yourself (and many, many others) just how much you hate their stinking guts. You never want to see them again, and burn all of your pictures.

Stage 3: Questioning the Entire Gender

Ugh, I mean, seriously, are they all like that?? You’re convinced at this point that there’s no hope for getting in another relationship, because all boys (or girls) are too crazy. What’s stopping them from doing the same thing as your ex?

So then you just decide to swear off boys/girls for good and hate the entire gender for the rest of your life. Problem solved.

Stage 4: Self-Confidence

It may take awhile, but eventually you’ll reach the stage where you find your self-confidence again. You realize that the break up was not your fault, because you’re flawless and perfect and your ex is the one who screwed up.

You’re not sad about the break up anymore, because you realize that you didn’t lose anything by losing them…. It was 100 percent their loss.

Stage 5: Moving On

This stage takes the longest to get to, but you will get there. You’ll get your game back and start finding some pretty cute, new replacements. Maybe you won’t get into another relationship for awhile, but you feel ok about flirting with some new cuties.

And when you finally do get into a new relationship, you’ll have some reserves. You might be scared that they’ll break your heart like the last one did, but you’re ready to move on and try again.

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