Breakup, as captured by my fitbit

Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by protomyth on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:22PM (#10933189)

I'm thinking the receiving end. I would expect a sense of relief in the person doing the breaking and not the lingering effects.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by duaneb on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @03:09PM (#10933572)

I don't think I could ever experience just relief breaking up. It's never that black and white of "I don't want to be around them at all"; you invariably miss the person you were spending all your time with.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by oldmanjay on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @06:54PM (#10935047)

Be careful making blanket statements about things you can't possibly know. I've had breakups that were unmitigated relief, due to my having horrible taste.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by 6stringmerc on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:25PM (#10933226)

Yeah that slower rate for a bit before spiking back up, to me, indicates the reflective questioning of "Why?" that would likely come about after just a shade of downtime.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by ihsw on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:34PM (#10933300)

You'd be surprised how stressful it is to break up with someone.

You don't want to lose a friend but it is in your best interests to do it.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by alwaysdoit on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:49PM (#10933421)

Sure, but presumably there would be a pattern of rising stress levels leading to the event. This looks like a square wave, which indicates an instantaneous change from one state of stress to another, which would indicate he was the party receiving the bad news.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by protomyth on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:50PM (#10933431)

> You'd be surprised how stressful it is to break up with someone.

I'm human and 45, I'm really not surprised, but I'll play the odds on who did what to whom.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by glibgil on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:25PM (#10933221)

Um, did you see the guy's photo? I'm going to guess no one breaks up with that guy unless he does the old trick of acting like a jerk until the other person wants out.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by Jtsummers on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:34PM (#10933303)

Plenty of people that are attractive and good (or at least non-jerks) that get broken up with. They don't necessarily have to be a jerk, just not a good match for their partner. Politics, views on marriage, mismatched libido, kids, etc.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by sundaeofshock on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:32PM (#10933283)

Some studies suggest we date people of compete able attractiveness. Whoever he was dating was most likely as good looking as him and would not consider it a blessing to stay with him.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by nommm-nommm on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @06:32PM (#10934957)

I dated someone once who was really great, did everything right, perfect on paper. However we broke up because I just didn't feel anything, there was no chemistry and sex was boring and lifeless. Sometimes that happens and its nobody's fault.

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Re:Breakup, as captured by my fitbit by protomyth on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:30PM (#10933259)

It is true for all, no matter how beautiful - someone, somewhere is tired of that person's crud.

[edit: this is true for all sexes but I guess the unkind reader will think beautiful doesn't apply to guys]

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