Time to Break Up!
I guess that I’m a little ahead of my time, having broken up with someone before the Holidays. According to yahoo, January is the time to set new resolutions, re-evaluate your priorities, and dump the bum on whom you’ve wasted your precious months in 2006.
Yahoo listed some links to songs for the separated HERE, and the titles are below:
Lost Cause - Beck
Song for the Dumped - Ben Folds Five
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Ever Fallen in Love? - Buzzcocks
Fuck It (I Don’t Want You Back) - Eamon
Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt
Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) - Motley Crue
These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ - Nancy Sinatra
Since You’re Gone - The Cars
Love Stinks - The J. Geils Band
Of course they have missed THE very most important break up song, I WILL SURVIVE by Gloria Gaynor. I LOVE IT!
Yahoo also conducted a break up survey. The online survey was conducted by Yahoo! Personals in July 2006. Respondents were 18+ year-old visitors to Yahoo! Personals. In total, over 2,500 people from all across the United States took the 24-question survey. Here’s what they found out:
BREAKUP EXPERIENCES:
* THOUGHT ABOUT IT: In the past five years 56 percent had considered breaking up but did not.
* SHE DID IT TO ME: Slightly more women are breaking up with men than the other way around. 81 percent of women have broken up with someone in the past five years vs. 77 percent of men. (me here: This just proves the women have more cajones than men when it comes right down to the important stuff.) 
Some other information gathered by yahoo break up studies:
READ THE SIGNS: BEFORE BREAKING UP WITH SOMEONE…
* 62 percent are likely to avoid the other person.
* 40 percent would go online to check out their options.
* 38 percent would have a drink to loosen up.
* 31 percent would spend one last night of hurrah together.
AFTER BREAKING UP WITH SOMEONE…
* 76 percent will immerse themselves in work.
* 73 percent will go online to check out other options.
* 50 percent will take themselves on a vacation.
* 37 percent will go out and have a few too many drinks.
* 23 percent will cut him/her out of all their photos.
GETTING BACK IN THE GAME:
* 42 percent of respondents would wait more than a month before dating again.
* Following a breakup 37 percent of respondents would search for their date online to get more information.
* 18-to-29-year-olds are more likely to play their favorite song on repeat than other daters to prepare for their first date after a breakup. (18 percent of 18-to-29-year-olds vs. 11 percent of total population). Older daters are more likely to do this than younger daters — 55 percent of 50+ daters would do this vs. just 22 percent of 18-to-29-year-old daters.
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January 15th, 2007 at 10:08 am
Hey I just dumped my loser boyfriend right before Christmas too, then posted my own favorite break-up song recommendation as well. Patty Smith from Scandal belts out “Goodbye to You” convincing even the saddest of the heartbroken that life will be better without that loser-man!
Nice blog!
Flydi
January 17th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Haha! Good job, Flydi! More power to ya!
April 11th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Interesting article!
“Slightly more women are breaking up with men than the other way around. 81 percent of women have broken up with someone in the past five years vs. 77 percent of men. (me here: This just proves the women have more cajones than men when it comes right ”
Hmmm..I’d say it has to do more with men failing to remain attractive to the woman (e.g. starting to behave like a girlfriend, instead of boyfriend).
Here’s some research we just completed in Australia:
http://www.themodernman.com/modernmanresearch.html