They say that breaking up is hard to do, but as it happens we think it's harder to have done unto you – and EVEN HARDER to absorb reasonably and with anything approaching dignity. We get into the weeds of our most embarrassing breakups, and the times we begged the men in question to take us back... over and over again.

Some day we may do an episode giving advice on how to deal with a terrible breakup, but this episode is NOT that. This is us talking about all of the many ways we did not cope well with being broken up with, the mortification we feel now and what we'd do differently. (Everything.)

A few things we mentioned on the podcast include:

• It's Called a Breakup Because it's Broken: The Smart Girl's Breakup Buddy by Greg Behrendt 
• Lunk (noun) – short for "lunkhead" (Oxford)
• Orgaz is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
• The concept of the sunk cost fallacy 
• Brad Pitt's accent in The Devil's Own 
• Lucifer on Netflix 

You can follow Rosemary on Instagram @rosemarymaccabe; Beatrice is @beatricemaccabe and you’ll find us both on the podcast Instagram @notwithoutmysister. Our Facebook page is here! For show notes, sporadic blog posts and assorted random things associated with the podcast, check out our website, notwithoutmysis.com. Want to get in touch? Email us on [email protected].

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Not Without My Sister is presented by sisters Beatrice Mac Cabe and Rosemary Mac Cabe, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Our producer is Liam Geraghty. Sound editing and original music by Don Kirkland. Original illustration by Lindsay Neilson. Not Without My Sister is a member of The Warren, the home of great Irish podcasts.

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