If you had to condense your last break-up into one sentence, would you be able to?
In honor of Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman’s new book on breakups, there’s a new blog that’s asking readers to do just that: submit their one line break-up stories. People can tend to go into a lot of detail when describing the demise of their relationships, but you’d be surprised how much pathos can be squeezed into one sentence.
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Here are some of our favorites:
- He was engaged to be married and we were being torn apart by drugs.
- We broke up because of a certain silver lamé bikini top, and subsequent lies regarding origin of said bikini.
- We broke up because despite multiple explanations about the nature of the romance publishing industry, he insisted on telling everyone that I work in porn.
- She thought the name of the doctor on Doctor Who was Doctor Who.
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