*Beautifully Invisible* is no longer listed as in a relationship

Remember the good old days when breaking up was easy? OK – maybe breaking up with someone has never been easy. Break-ups always were and always will be difficult. They should be difficult. They should make you cry. They should make you want to eat ungodly amounts of ice cream. They should make you want to go on a shopping spree. They should make you want to get a makeover. A haircut. Some killer shoes. Whatever.

All of those things make sense. They are paths along the road back to normalcy.

Enter social media. Specifically, enter the facebook “relationship status”.

You start dating someone.

You fall in love with that person.

You are filled with such joy and happiness you want to dance in the streets.

Sing in the rain.

Shout it from the rooftops.

So you update your facebook status to “is in a relationship”. That is kind of like shouting your joy from a rooftop. Only safer.

Then… you break-up.

And you are heartbroken.

And you have to somehow deal with the emptiness and grief you are feeling. Even though it seems impossible.

You attempt to hide at least some of your pain from the world, so they don't see the depths of your despair.

And then you realize, you have to change your stupid f%#&ing facebook status. Because you are no longer in a relationship.

So you change it.

And then - so does he.

And you feel like you broke up all over again. Only this time EVERYONE in the CIVILIZED world was witness to it.

Breaking up once was bad enough.

Stupid status.

Now I need TWO pairs of killer shoes.