![]() ![]() “In the last few months, I have lost my son, my spouse, and my house,” she informs us. The opening pages of Ariel Levy’s memoir are a dispatch from deep within a waking nightmare. And despite their intimate understanding of the pain of heartbreak, they offer steadfast affirmation that love remains worth pursuing. The books below are both psychologically acute and genuinely insightful about the specific derangement of a separation. (Each unhappy family, etc.) But reading a book that manages to be eloquent about emotions that frequently render one inarticulate makes it possible to be gentle with yourself. ![]() It can be easy to get lost in the particularities of your own doomed love and become convinced that no one’s ever gone through what you’re enduring. The great Russian novelist understood.ĭuring a breakup, when being alone takes on a new rawness and intensity, the need to find your own life reflected in works of art is never greater. My own ex’s inability to handle emotions was all there. Anna’s husband completely loses his powers of reasoning whenever he sees a woman cry: “The emotional distress wrought in Alexey Alexandrovich by tears on such occasions would find expression in a rapid loss of temper,” Leo Tolstoy writes. “It gratified him to feel like a desperate man,” Willa Cather writes of the surly husband, Frank, in O Pioneers! “His unhappy temperament was like a cage he could never get out of it and he felt that other people, his wife in particular, must have put him there.” Yes, yes, that was exactly how he was! I thought, scribbling down the quote.Įven the smallest moment in Anna Karenina, that breakup classic, could conjure visions of misery. Whether you’re angry, relieved, wallowing in grief or gleefully moving on from your latest romantic split, allow Billboard‘s 55 favorite breakup songs to ease you through the aftermath.For years after my last failed relationship, I would hoard lines from books that seemed to describe my ex perfectly and devastatingly. Or better yet, take a cue from Ariana Grande and simply say to your ex, “Thank you, next.” Alternately, allow Beyoncé’s discography to remind you just how much you’re worth. Just ask Lizzo, whose self-love, leave-his-behind, booty-shaking bangers will transform listeners from heartbroken to happily single and ready to mingle. Hey, Billboard doesn’t judge.īut just as not all breakups are sad, neither are all breakup songs. Or god forbid, maybe you’ve even been dumped by someone you uhh … had an intimate moment with at a theater, a la “You Oughta Know” (which is absolutely, without a doubt, 1,000% on this list). Or, maybe you had to watch as your partner left you for the older blonde girl they had previously told you not to worry about, possibly right before you passed your driver’s license test. Maybe you, too, have had an ex hang on to your old scarf because it smells like you, even after calling you up again just to break you like a promise. It’s true: Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and SZA (who is Billboard’s 2023 Woman of the Year) just hit different once you’ve actually gone through the tender-hearted scenarios they so poignantly describe in their lyrics. When a relationship comes to a painful end, however, there is one bright side - you get to enjoy breakup songs in a way you might not have before. ![]()
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