Going through some heartache...

[Killer Bee]

Girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me...I feel so blue...

How can I cheer up? I'm in such a slump that I haven't even been reading any comics from the past 2 weeks...it's times like these where even my hobbies can't even help me get my mind off my problems.

[howyadoin]

I recommend sleeping with one of her friends. It'll mess things up in the long term, but for right now it might put the spring back in your step.

Especially if it's a friend you don't actually like much.

[Killer Bee]

I appreciate the advice, but I'm not trying to make an enemy out of her.

[howyadoin]

I appreciate the advice, but I'm not trying to make an enemy out of her.So fill us in a little on the breakup. Maybe that'll help us be more helpful.

[Killer Bee]

She just wasn't happy and we broke up on good terms. The twist is that we lived together with her parents. Her parents refuse to let me move out. They cry everytime telling me I'm like a son to them. It just hurts a lot.

[StoneGold]

I recommend sleeping with one of her friends. It'll mess things up in the long term, but for right now it might put the spring back in your step.

Especially if it's a friend you don't actually like much.

Better, sleep with her mother. Even better, impregnate her mother.




Nothing says fuck you bitch like a baby brother.

[Killer Bee]

>_>..you guys are...not weird...but very...unique.

[Pól Rua]

The solution is to have fun. Get out (especially out of THAT house). See your friends and do shit you like to do.

If you are, however, determined to mope about the house, then my recommendation is to have fun with it. Get a bunch of black clothes and die a bed sheet black. Fasten it around your neck with a safety pin forming a crude cape (hood optional). Write shitty poetry in black ink on black paper and listen to Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave albums.
Go out into the wilderness in your cape with your poems and find a suitably Bronte Sisters environment (woods are okay if you can't find moors). Read your poetry at the sky, cursing cruel fate.
Frighten the shit out of some picnickers just around the corner who you couldn't see until you've finished.

Under no circumstances listen to Whitesnake.
I mean, just because you're bummed doesn't mean you've gone mental or something. Have some self-respect, man.

You know... that sort of shit.

[Subotai]

What he said. The first sentence, anyways.

[Winslow]

She just wasn't happy and we broke up on good terms. The twist is that we lived together with her parents. Her parents refuse to let me move out. They cry everytime telling me I'm like a son to them. It just hurts a lot.

There's a unique situation. Sorry for your heartache.

Yeah, you have to move out.

. . and you have to have fun with your friends, although I also suggest making a new set, since there's probably a lot of overlap.

How old are you?

[MaxofSteel]

There's a unique situation. Sorry for your heartache.

Yeah, you have to move out.

. . and you have to have fun with your friends, although I also suggest making a new set, since there's probably a lot of overlap.

How old are you?

Yea move out. At least temporarily, and see if time will let things get better before you consider moving back in. If her folks love you so much, the move being temporary shouldn't be much of a problem.

[Shellhead]

C'mon now, there must have been some things that you have been wanting to do, but just couldn't do while living with your girl and her parents. As soon as you find a place to stay, this is the time to cut loose a little. Hookers and blow! Or at least do a couple of minor things that you like to do but your girlfriend didn't like.

For example, my girlfriend is allergic to seafood and nuts, so the first thing that I would do is chow down on some popcorn shrimp and some cashews, without immediately brushing afterwards to avoid delivering a kiss of death. My girlfriend also never liked The Tick, so I would break out my season 1 dvd and invite some friends over for a marathon Tick viewing.

[Joey Friday]

These are my solutions, and yes, I am serious:
1. Porn. Watch it until you get tired of watching other people do it to the point where you want to have your own relationship.
2. Spring season. Wait until April or May to get another chick.
3. Spending time with friends.

[The Punished]

You live with her family. It is really going to be difficult. First, give her time and space to develop who she really is as a person. Take this time also to find who you are.

Too many times people define themselves by the relationships they enter. 5 years down the line you decide you really don't like Ellen as your favorite TV show. Find what makes you happy, what makes you laugh.

Hang out with your buddies, go to movies, go bowling, go to a gym and begin an exercise program...anything to take your focus off the hurt you are feeling.

If it is true love, when you find who you are and she discovers who she is, it will be there. If not, it is better to learn to be yourself

[Killer Bee]

Oh man...this is seriously the best advice I've ever been given about this situation compared to other people and forums I've asked about such situations.

I finally have a job so it won't take too long for me to make the first month's rent for this place I want including the deposit and util. I live in a new city (originally from Los Angeles, just moved to Orange County) so having new friends shouldn't be hard.

Winslow: I'm 21. Yeah...I also know I should've gone through this in high school.

[frankiedetroit]

Girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me...I feel so blue...

How can I cheer up? I'm in such a slump that I haven't even been reading any comics from the past 2 weeks...it's times like these where even my hobbies can't even help me get my mind off my problems.

We've all been down this road, and it's true: You should be ringing your friends and spilling your troubles to them in whatever way you can, whether it's actually talking about your heartbreak or punching each other in the shoulder (cowboy up!) or tossing back more than a few.

(Fair warning: If these are good friends, any feelings you reveal while talking about the heartbreak can be used against you forever.)

You must move out. She dumped you. Now you get to be in control of something--where you live. Go. Be in charge of something else: After you move out, tell her to not call you for a while so you can heal. Say it with an agonizing smile so she knows it's heartfelt not hatred. Take control of what you can control.

It's going to be excruciating for a while, but then it becomes agonizing, then painful, then bearable, then a nagging nuisance, then it goes away. You'll get through this.

Good luck. Call your boys. Hang with them. Oh--and if your boys are surprised to hear from you cuz you haven't been around as much the last three years, that is a lesson to learn: Next romance, and all from here on out, don't give up your friends. If she demands you ditch 'em, tell her to hit the road.

[Pól Rua]

What he said. The first sentence, anyways.

Haha! You like Whitesnake! You like Whitesnake!