Everybody knows that breaking up is hard to do.
It's hard on the heart and the ego.
But the silver lining of losing a special someone...
...is knowing that your friends have your back.
Which is why losing a friend is 100% worse than losing a lover.
Let's compare:
1. First of all, a romantic break-up may hurt, but at least you know where you stand.
But with a friend break-up, you may not even know what hit you.
2. Mourning a romantic break-up means wearing your PJs while your friends give you chocolate and tell you how ~amazing~ you are.
But mourning a friend break-up means wondering if all the friends you shared are your friends or their friends now.
3. Rebounding after a romantic break-up: no-strings-attached sex with your office crush.
Rebounding after a friend break-up: drinking the whole bottle of shit wine you used to share and watching your favourite bad reality TV alone.
You can't re-create the intimacy of an old friendship.
4. Your social life after a romantic break-up: taking time to focus on your friendships, treating yourself, and reclaiming your independence.
Your social life after a friend break-up: "Oh god, do I have to join a club or something now?"
5. Purging after a romantic break-up: getting rid of all the junk they left behind.
Goodbye coffee mug with lame joke on it, goodbye old razor, goodbye T-shirt they gave you that you secretly hated but pretended to love.
Purging after a friend break-up: wondering if there's anything you like that won't remind you of them.
6. Finding someone new after a romantic break-up: online dating, singles nights, flirting like crazy.
Finding someone new after a friend break-up: "Why the fuck is there no Tinder for friends?"
7. Facebook after a romantic break-up: cutting the cord with a clear status update.
Facebook after a friend break-up: unfriend? Unfollow? Ignore? Keep liking their stuff like nothing ever happened? Silently fume every time they update?
8. Instagram after a romantic break-up: you looking your hottest + weepy quotes.
Instagram after a friend break-up: painstakingly prepared lunches for one.
9. Twitter after a romantic break-up: sliding into a new crush's DMs like...
Twitter after a friend break-up: 0 retweets, 0 likes, 0 replies.
10. Bumping into your ex-partner: flaunting how amazing you look and how awesome your life is now.
Bumping into your ex-friend: weirdly and passive-aggressively pretending you're still friends.
11. Parties after a romantic break-up: "I'm a free agent and I will do me tonight."
Parties after a friend break-up: "How do I even talk to other humans?"
12. Reinventing yourself after a romantic break-up: getting a daring and awesome new haircut.
Reinventing yourself after a friend break-up: accepting your life as a solitary creature and referring to yourself as your own best friend.
13. Drunk-dialling your ex-partner: Embarrassing, but likely to be ignored or end in unhealthy but satisfying post-break-up hook-up.
Drunk-dialling your ex-friend: truly the saddest thing that ever happened.
14. Music after a romantic break-up: escaping with that go-to playlist of sad songs that completely get you.
Music after a friend break-up: trying to find a single song about losing a friend and wondering if you're literally the only person on the planet this has ever happened to.
15. Letting it all out after a romantic break-up: Crying on all your friends' shoulders and going home to eat your parents' food.
Letting it all out after a friend break-up: starting an anonymous blog to bitch about how they ruined your life.
16. Hangovers after a romantic break-up: eating as much gross, greasy hangover cures as you want because you are your own boss now.
Hangovers after a friend break-up: eating the whole post-drinking pizza by yourself and holding your own hair back while you're sick.
17. Making new friends after a romantic break-up: bonding over nasty exes.
