Facebook is detrimental to the recovery process
Ever since facebook came around, break-ups have become even more of a nightmare. We split almost a year ago now, and I can go most days without thinking about her, I'd be completely healthy and recovered except it's still like a punch in the nuts when I go on facebook and the status bar reads '**** has the best boyfriend EVER'. Obviously I can't bring this up with her because it's been a year and I'll seem insane, and I can't just block her because she's too important to me and I don't want to lose touch. What's a boy to do?

Apologies for lack of hummus, maybe I should just go and hang out on myspazz with the other emos. Love makes bad poets of us all.
(jabboy, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 13:11, 21 replies)

Get a new girlfriend
and sellotape a picture of your old girlfriend to the back of her head.

That's what I'm going to do.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 13:15, closed)

Block her
Or go with the photo and selotape plan. Either way.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 13:48, closed)

My ex
de-friended me on the basis (he said) that he couldn't stop torturing himself with looking at my profile, not that I'm seeing anyone else or anything, as I am still in love with the bastard.

So as I can no longer see his status updates I torture myself instead with looking at his friends list, wondering what he's doing with whom, and who the fuck SHE is whenever he gets a new female friend...

So yeah, I empathise... it's definitely detrimental to the recovery process. Join you on myspazz.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 14:13, closed)

oh please
turn off your pc, go outside and find something less mindfucknumbingly emo to do instead.

if you are pining over a facebook profile just you wait until someone you love really fucks you up
(Halfy By light alone, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 15:04, closed)

Er thanks.
He did. Hence the uncharacteristic emo-ness.

Never mind.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 19:04, closed)

Hear hear.
That's what this post was about...to summarise:

-jabboy in love with girl
-girl fucks jabboy up
-jabboy unable to get over the fucking up as smoothly due to existence of facebook

What, because we both have social networking accounts we're uncapable of having had a meaningful relationship?

Twat.
(jabboy, Sat 13 Sep 2008, 19:12, closed)

UNCAPABLE.

( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:36, closed)

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:36, closed)

Yeah
uncapable of checking our typos too, apparently.
(jabboy, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 12:49, closed)

If keeping in touch means THAT much to you, presumably you have phone numbers, emails addies, etc?
So why not just delete her?

It's not like you'll lose touch if y'know, you actually put the effort in rather than doing the online equivalent of hiding in her garden stroking your cock.
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 9:33, closed)

Yeah I know, that would make sense
but deleting her kind of makes it obvious I'm still not over her. Plus since facebook came along, everyone I know uses it instead of email. It's an oddity finding a message in my hotmail inbox these days. I shy away from phone contact as well, mainly because I have the phone manner of a retarded spider monkey. So it's texts, facebook and msn I rely on. Boy, am I teenage or what?
(jabboy, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 14:44, closed)

Fine, you carry on sitting in the bushes crying and wanking rather than be grown up about it.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 15:51, closed)

As harsh as Badger sounds
He has a point.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Sun 14 Sep 2008, 9:57, closed)

Litmus Test Time
Go on a date with another girl (or lie about going on a date if you have to). Put on your status how much you are looking forward to the date and a "fresh start", yada yada. If your ex goes bunny boiler on you on Facestalk then you know that she has been putting that '**** has the best boyfriend EVER' stuff just to get back at you and she hasn't really got over you.

I'll be serious now - Just move on and find pastures new. There's little point moping what you could have had with her because you're wasting time that you could be spending with someone even better than "The Ex". She is your ex for a reason.

Edit: Badger once again types words of wisdom. :)
( Templeton Blah, blah, blah..., Sun 14 Sep 2008, 9:59, closed)

Yeh
the reason is, she dumped me.
(jabboy, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 14:46, closed)

Hahaha!
baldmonkeystuff.co.uk/dear%20baldmonkey/
( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:35, closed)

BALDMONKEY TO THE RESCUE!

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 10:40, closed)

Mate, you'll never get over her if ou keep her in your life. Delete the profile, erase her phone number, remove email address from contact list.

She won't even notice you've blocked her until she tries to stalk you.

And in 6 months, if you still want to be friends, send her an email or something. You should be seeing other people by that point, and hopefully fully over her
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 15:05, closed)

I know
everything everybody's saying is obviously right, and I know I am an irrational emo bastard. I tried blocking her out completely the first couple of months after we broke up, and that was even worse. I'm just one of those 'life is suffering' types, I wasn't looking for any sympathy or anything, I was just surprised that no-one was really mentioning this side of the Facebook thing. I really am over her for the most part, it's just the occasional photo or status update popping up on my feed that plunges me back into Jon Favreau in 'Swingers' mode, like the other day. Haven't cried about it since the week it happened, and I'm managing to keep the masturbation to a healthy level (six times a day is about normal, right? O_o).
(jabboy, Sun 14 Sep 2008, 17:52, closed)

Been there....
I know the feeling of this one, happily there's a fun little tool on the news feed, allowing you to edit privacy settings.

It means you can block all mention of her ever coming up on the news feed, and just shy away from status updates, sure as hell helped me!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 9:06, closed)

brilliant brilliant brilliant
I'm doing this right this second.
(jabboy, Mon 15 Sep 2008, 19:01, closed)