Crazy in love

There's no doubt about it, when it's good, it's great, but when it's bad, it's brutal! Ah, the joys of being in love! Going through the stages of a failed romance is like being a manic depressive. You go from a period of intense happiness (marked by a in the graph above) while in the relationship to a period of equally intense sadness (marked by b) when it goes west.

Usually, the time in the doldrums is comparable to the time on a high, so be prepared to suffer when the hammer blow arrives at the end of a long relationship. When the writing has been on the wall, the slope of the line, L, will be lower, thus cushioning the fall into the shits. However, a bolt from the blue could rapidly plunge the dumpee into a kind of despair that can be harder to climb out of.

With time, you'll eventually climb out of the pit of desolation ready to start the cycle over and over again until you meet that special person!