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It was about 3,000 words and it was just a stream of consciousness of memories, a crazy mind map of what had happened so that I could make sense of it.
It is an unflinchingly honest reminder of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love that will resonate with anyone that has ever nursed a broken heart. In flashback scenes in the book, you’re still in a long-term relationship and you’re a young, freelance journalist trying to break into the industry. According to him, our pickiness isn’t about app-induced amnesia – it shows we’re not willing to settle for less than we deserve.For example, scan the brain of a heartbroken person and the same parts light up as somebody who has suffered a burn. It’s a hard pill to swallow and it’s a good, long cry, the kind that leaves snot, not so much dripping but pouring from your nose. Otherwise, you’ll be one of those people who begins sentences with: “My boyfriend, I mean ex-boyfriend. The end of something is so often its most poignant part, and she gives her ending the weight and romanticisation it deserves. It’s stirred up all these thoughts within me and even though I was desperate to keep reading it and just get on with it, I would dip in and out and then wander around with my thoughts for ages before repeating the process.
When I saw he was serious, I didn’t know what to say, so I just said what a dumped person might come out with, which was: “You know that means you won’t get to see me any more? Annie Lord nails down the heartbreak experience like no other and I think this is an extremely comforting read for people going through it, as I currently am. Listening to me cry down the phone, smiling and nodding as I diagnosed my ex with various mental illnesses despite having very little understanding of the symptoms. It is an unflinchingly honest yet lyrical meditation on the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love that will resonate with anyone who has ever nursed a broken heart.Annie Lord: I am someone that really likes to sit in a feeling and so after my breakup I really only wanted to read or watch things about breakups and every book I read was either a self-help book, like ‘let’s get you back on the horse,’ or began so long after the fact – maybe because the pain is so hard to describe.
She lists the phases she went through such as not being able to get out of bed, eating too little — she pined for him so hard she lost the belly fat that her ex used to love — or annoying friends by going on about her ex all the time. One muggy evening at the end of my second year at uni, a reminder for a Facebook event popped up on my phone. Today, up to 7% of all sudden cardiac hospital admissions in Japan are diagnosed as takotsubo, when stress hormones after a traumatic event have caused a weakening of the left ventricle, meaning it can no longer pump effectively – for a while, it gives up.
he said and then slapped him hard on the back in that way men do when they don’t want shows of affection to seem affectionate. I'm not talking about the kind you have at school or uni where you see someone for a few months and then they stop messaging, or one of you kisses someone else, and you feel a bit shit about it.
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