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How Men Deal With Breakups

Men cope with breakups in some surprising and predictable ways.

LoveFeed discusses a "Mind of Man" article on TheFrisky.com which details what men think after a breakup. Hint: alcohol and other women are on the list.

Can you relate?

Discussion

angelikasyn Starting Over
Can Relate - Posted October 18, 2009

I dunno, I got broken up with-- for three reasons I believe to be true-- he wanted to screw other girls, I'd moved 4 hours away for a few months, and we were fighting.

I should have seen it coming. He wanted to be friends afterwards, for awhile (2 wks) I went along with it, then it slowed to a trickle because I knew that while I was still pining for him he'd be out getting drunk and trying to get laid.

Perhaps i was right, (woman's instinct) as when I sent him a message saying I wanted to call off the promise we had to be celibate for a certain amount of time... and that we'd be the next one each other would sleep with... apparently that would imply to a guy I had someone lined up to sleep with? I never came out and said it, I only mentioned that there was no way (and no reason to) stay celibate for each other for an indeterminate period of time (few months), just thought it would be dumb to hold such a promise with an ex.

He informed me he'd beaten me to the punch and proceeded to inform me of the things he'd already done (some of them in explicit detail)... so basically, if a guy starts acting single before he really is... it should be a warning sign that things are coming to an end. I dunno, maybe some stronger couples can fix it.

I don't know if the boozing and getting laid (he'd always been a partier, it only caught my attention when he and his roommate had 3 consecutive weekends of guy's nights without his roommate's gf and me) don't know if that was a symptom of the problem or what.

He'd always been a boozer and partier, so it's confusing. Only difference is now he's actively chasing women... unless he'd been that way all along and I never caught it.

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BookMama Married Happily Married
Posted October 18, 2009

It sounds like he isn't ready to settle down yet. You're better off with someone more mature.

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YoreNightLotus Taken everlasting?
Can't Relate - Posted August 7, 2009

I do think this video is a lil silly. Not all men are like that. In fact almost all the guys I know act just like normal women when they're broken up with. Unless it was a bad relationship anyway. Men get hurt by women just as much as women get hurt when men break up with them. Guys just dont always show it the same way as women. They might not cry infront of you or get a tub of Ben And Jerry's, But they get just as emotional and maybe becoming silent is the only way they can stop themselves from crying and begging you to come back. Men like to seem manly still and try to hide strong emotions sometimes but not all guys are like "Hey screw her I'll get a Beer and go to the strip club and all will be fine" ..... That's sounds like it came from someone who has watched too much TV. LOL

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Posted January 19, 2009

and women say men are insensitive

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Posted January 18, 2009

hmmm...I wonder if she recently went through a breakup?
Seems just a little bitter.

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Posted January 17, 2009

omfg what a feminist! T_T

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Posted January 6, 2009

this woman is a an idiot

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Posted January 4, 2009

Whoever writes these skits needs to do more research...

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Posted December 31, 2008

i am not like this, and as far as I could see, i know a lot more about what men think than you.
you just hate men.

men suffer as much as women do, and sometimes maybe more. We don't have members of the opposite sex hitting on us all the time, reminding us we're sexy.. you have that advantage after a break up.
drinking is just a way to temporarily solve the problem, but it doesn't work for me, i only get angrier.

Men and women actually think the same way, in the long and short run.

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Posted December 27, 2008

she was disturbing......

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Posted December 18, 2008

Chicks and Dudes deal with it in the same way. We both mope around until our friends drag us out to the pub. Guys eat less ice cream though. I don't think some girls talk nearly enough. I guess it just depends on the topic. And I have never known any guy to call hoots "righteous". Nor "hoots".

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Posted December 15, 2008

One more time - And what do you expect when reading off a site called 'The Friskys'? It wasn't really your thoughts, which I get, just some men writing some goofy s**t.

Hah, still just wishing there would have been a critical look into it instead of a joke.

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Posted December 15, 2008

Generalizing, and untrue for the most part.

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Posted December 15, 2008

I was hoping there would be unbiased truth, but instead I see a video pandering to women. And I get that - I recognize the core audience viewing these videos are women.

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Posted December 14, 2008

talking too much = ruin relationship

men and women are no different in the breakup world plus or minus how they deal with it.

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Posted December 14, 2008

I thought this video will be interesting. wrong.

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Posted December 14, 2008

Her question: possible to talk enough?

With her, apparently she can't seem to talk enough. Bitch.

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Posted December 14, 2008

this video is really stereotypical.. its true for maybe... 60-70 percent of guys but the not rest.. 3***

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Posted December 14, 2008

i dnno about this...i broke up with my boyfriends and for next year and a half he was still trying to get back with me

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Posted December 13, 2008

lmaoo ur funny

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Posted December 13, 2008

hahahaha I could have to agree
I love it

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