It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy
by Greg Behrendt and Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
Published by Broadway
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Reviewed by Dana Anderson
This is a "sequel" to He's Just Not That Into You. I have found that the message does not apply just to relationships but everything in life: Don't dwell on the past. It's over, and YOU need to get over it.
Greg is extremely funny and sarcastic in his answers to women who wrote to him. My favorite is a woman who is waiting for her married boyfriend to leave his wife. And she keeps waiting because "he's so good to my dog."
Greg states the obvious so clearly and so cleverly! It might be the exact advice a girlfriend (or even a mother) might have given, but you didn't listen. For some reason when Greg (or another man) tells you, you accept it.
The author explains that your man doesn't decide this morning he is going to break up with you this evening. No, he puts a lot of thinking into it, negotiating his options and slowly he starts cutting his ties to you. How they can get out of this relationship without you falling apart in front of him. So after he gives some inane and dishonest reasons for leaving you, he says: I'LL CALL. With those magic words, women sit and wait and hope he didn't mean to break up with you.
Women take their man's every word as truth, reading into them false hope.
After a breakup, Greg says not to see that man for 90 days. Don't think of reasons why he has to come to your house to pick up anything of his. Ever hear of donating clothes? Don't be brain dead.
I wish I had this book when I was going through a breakup so I would not have felt so alone. Greg explains how the "ah ha factor" is huge. I survived and you will too.
Armchair Interviews says: We recommend this book to any single women and to married women who "are dating" -- if you are clueless as to what constitutes and leads up to a breakup, Greg will give you insights. Duh!