The Break-Up Blog.

Unfortunately it's a sad fact of young, single girl life that we're all painfully and enevitably going to get dumped at one point. Now, I'm not suggesting that this little gem of information be used when you're crying into your pillow and snotting everywhere but after a few days of tears, Ben and Jerry's and the ritual 'Boyfriend Bonfire' of the cards and pictures of you together a little light appears at the end of the break up express tunnel and you gradually realise that just maybe...he wasn't quite right anyway.

If you're not quite there yet you are probably trapped in one of these three stages;

1. Uncontrollable and equally unattractive crying. Normally occuring just after the break up has taken place and the subsequent days afterwards, everytime anyone is nice to you, brings you a present or, God help them, gives you a hug.
2. Numbness. After the crying has momentarily stopped and the hurt has been replaced by mute numbness as you watch re-runs of Sex and the City into the night comapring your relationship with your ex to whatever is going on between Carrie and Big/Adian (depending on which episode you have picked to weep to.)
3. The What-is-wrong-with-me/I'm-never-going-to-meet-someone-else-ever-again stage. Normally, by this point you've stopped crying and justifying your break up the Carrie Bradshaw way e.g. talked it to death and then gone and bought shoes. And you are using it as an excuse to get out of doing the washing up, hoovering and putting any effort in at work except to go to Greggs for chocolate eclairs. It is also at this point you consider yourself in 10 years time, living in a granny annex off of your parents house with 12 cats you call your "Babies".

Now, by stage four you should be feeling somewhat back to your normal self, however I must point out that the duration of the previous three stages depends entirely upon how long you were in your relationship. Obviously, for you girlies that were blissfully in love with your guy it's going to take considerably longer and I would reccomend adding a bottle of wine along with the Ben and Jerry's (not that I'm condoning drunkeness...actually...in this case I am!) and for you girls that were happily on the path to falling in love, like me, but weren't quite there yet well...oh, to hell with it, have a bottle of wine too! I reccomend Rose!

But, by far the most important thing ladies, to get over the pain quickly and slightly less painfully, you (or a friend) need to perform some effective damage control. Get rid of any pictures where he looks sexy and you look happy, burn letters he wrote, cards he sent, for God's sake delete him from Facebook and/or Twitter (torturing yourself by constantly checking his "status" and any new photos to only be devastated when a gorgeous brunette pops up in them, who is probably his cousin anyway is NOT healthy!) and get rid of his phone number, sad, drunk texting/calling at 4am is not going to get him back or you over it.

So, for goodness sake girls, it's Summer, get that maxy dress on, get down to the beach and get checking out hot guys in aviators...they're everywhere...I've noticed hehe!

xoxo