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What kinds of things do you like to watch/read right after a breakup? I find that I can't handle anything where love is the focus. I'm at the tail end of getting over a breakup right now and I find what works best is science fiction and Woody Allen movies.

 

Music is different. I have a kickass girl playlist with angry and sad "it's over" music. Examples: Kelly Clarkson Gone, Christina Aguilera Fighter, Evanescence Missing, Nelly Furtado In God's Hands.

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Um... when I'm dealing with a break-up and people in my Aikido club know it... nobody wants to practice with me - they're all scared!!! :laugh: I try to be gentle but I can't...

 

Music: something full of energy!!!

 

Movies: Horrors, war movies, sci-fi.

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Any particular suggestions on movies? Am updating my Netflix queue...

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Alien 1-4. Alien vs. Predator 1-2. Predator 1-2. :laugh:

 

Um, Kill Bill both volumes.

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favorite breakup movies:

 

forgetting sarah marshall

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

manhattan

better off dead

chungking express

broken flowers

rushmore

the first wive's club (i know, so cheesy, but i like it)

 

and then feel-good movies that cheer me up:

the cider house rules

priscilla, queen of the desert

harold and maude

good will hunting

paper moon

persuasion

eagle vs. shark

the truman show

wings of desire

 

(i also know TONS of good sad movies, if you need any recommendations hehe)

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Apocalypse now

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Haha, Eternal Sunshine and First Wives' Club are ones I've used in the past :)

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favorite breakup movies:

good will hunting

 

People! PLEASE! Stop watching that particular movie!!! That and 'Beautiful Mind'... It's full of crap and then when I say that being a mathematician is a job kind of like any other (well maybe the time is not regulated) - no gal believes me!

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People! PLEASE! Stop watching that particular movie!!! That and 'Beautiful Mind'... It's full of crap and then when I say that being a mathematician is a job kind of like any other (well maybe the time is not regulated) - no gal believes me!

 

oh, it's cool. i'm a scientist and my ex-boyfriend is a theoretical physicist, so i have no problem distinguishing fact from fiction. in my opinion, good will hunting is just a good movie.

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oh, it's cool. i'm a scientist and my ex-boyfriend is a theoretical physicist, so i have no problem distinguishing fact from fiction. in my opinion, good will hunting is just a good movie.

 

Yeah - but you're coming from a scientific background... In goodwill hunting there is a scene where this older math prof and Will are sitting and looking at a combinatorial diagram on the board. Will gets up and writes some combinatorial formula on the board - then they both start canceling terms... GEEZ!!! I nearly puke when I see it... :sick:

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Yeah - but you're coming from a scientific background... In goodwill hunting there is a scene where this older math prof and Will are sitting and looking at a combinatorial diagram on the board. Will gets up and writes some combinatorial formula on the board - then they both start canceling terms... GEEZ!!! I nearly puke when I see it... :sick:

 

ha, it's just a story ;)

and i don't think people are watching it for the math equations. i know i don't.

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ha, it's just a story ;)

and i don't think people are watching it for the math equations. i know i don't.

 

Of course it's a story. But this skews peoples view on the whole subject. That's my point!

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Of course it's a story. But this skews peoples view on the whole subject. That's my point!

 

ok then... :)

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The best way to deal with a breakup is to get active: practice jujutsu, play guitar or piano, paint, draw, cycle, swim, dance, jog, etc. Get the blood flowing. Sitting around doesn't help.

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practice jujutsu

 

Maybe for a girl... as mentioned somewhere - immediately after a break-up nobody wants to practice Aikido with me. Everybody's scared... :lmao: I can't help it...

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The best way to deal with a breakup is to get active: practice jujutsu, play guitar or piano, paint, draw, cycle, swim, dance, jog, etc. Get the blood flowing. Sitting around doesn't help.

Sometimes you just need to veg!

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I watch The Notebook and listen to The Script. I don't read...

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I watch The Notebook and listen to The Script. I don't read...

 

 

wow the script. Great band . "Break Even" is my fav song

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