amanda's review
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
by Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
amanda's review
It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy by Greg Behrendt, Amiira Ruotola-Behrendt
amanda's review
rating:
recommended for: ladies in deadend relationships
Ok. I don't typically classify myself as the self-help book type. I'm normally standing around Making Fun Of self-help books. But last week I realized that I've been obsessing for over a year about a certain someone and that our "relationship" wasn't headed anywhere I wanted to, that I was acting like a fool gathering little scraps of affection and piecing them together into some shitty quilt and well, I bought this book.
It's corny and the writing is questionable, but there's sound advice in it and I think it finally cleared all the cobwebs and bullshit out of my head and made me realize that not only did I compromise my wants/needs in this "relationship" but that I've done it in MOST of my relationships forever and ever and ever. I compromised them because I thought I could change people or that if I worked hard enough at being the thing they wanted they'd miraculously turn into the thing that I wanted. So now I'm on the road to recovery. To treating myself be...more
It's corny and the writing is questionable, but there's sound advice in it and I think it finally cleared all the cobwebs and bullshit out of my head and made me realize that not only did I compromise my wants/needs in this "relationship" but that I've done it in MOST of my relationships forever and ever and ever. I compromised them because I thought I could change people or that if I worked hard enough at being the thing they wanted they'd miraculously turn into the thing that I wanted. So now I'm on the road to recovery. To treating myself be...more
