Result · How Do You Handle a Breakup?

The one who denies it

Officially everything is fine, it was the right call, and you say so with fairly convincing calm. You aren't lying to other people — you've mostly managed to convince yourself. It holds up remarkably well, right up to the day a smell, a street or a song lifts the lid all at once, usually at the worst possible moment. You may as well pick the moment yourself: naming what hurts doesn't commit you to falling apart.