"Can I Keep It Strictly Sexual With a Controlling Ex?"


Updated 04/08/12 8:32 AM · Posted by · 20 comments

Controlling Ex

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! My ex and I broke up a while ago. We broke up because he was very controlling, we had a lot of miscommunication and there was unavailability on his part. The sex was very good though! He wants to be friends with benefits and we talked about it and agreed we would try it out. After a few days Read more

Group Therapy: Feeling Desperate to Get My Ex Back


Updated 12/02/11 12:17 AM · Posted by · 25 comments

Desperate to Get My Ex Back

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! He is 24 and I am 22. He is a PhD student. I am a Bachelor student. We were together for three years. My boyfriend and I just broke up two months ago and this was the third time breaking up. The reason was me. After I read your articles, I just found out that I was needy, pushy, controlling, Read more

A Reader Asks: Help! How Do I Break Up With My Trainer?


Updated 08/17/11 7:41 PM · Posted by · 2 comments

How to Break Up With a Personal Trainer

FitSugar reader jessicaeden needs your help — she's unhappy with her personal trainer and wants to find a new one. She posted her question in the FitSugar running community group, FitSugar Q and A. What's appropriate etiquette if you're unhappy with your personal trainer? I want to switch trainers, but don't want to offend. — Jessica Good question, Jessica. Ending a relationship is never Read more

Group Therapy: When Is It OK to Contact My Ex to Apologize?


Updated 04/05/11 6:50 PM · Posted by · 21 comments

Contacting an Ex to Apologize

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! Hey! Well I broke up with my boyfriend of two years on Saturday. This isn't exactly the first time I've broken up with him; I tend to do it a lot out of anger, but it's always temporary and everything turns out fine afterward. If it helps you to understand me, I'm a pisces so I tend to get Read more

Meghan McCain Learns Not Everything Stays in Vegas


Updated 03/17/11 9:26 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Meghan McCain on Canceling Juniata College Speech to Go to Las Vegas

Meghan McCain is playing defense today. After canceling a speaking engagement to go to Las Vegas last year, today she writes in the Daily Beast it was because her boyfriend had just broken up with her "over a five-line email." Last September, my boyfriend broke up with me over a five-line email. I had a speaking engagement at Juniata College, but that would have to wait. I canceled the speech Read more

I Love You But: What Quirk Made You Realize It Was Over?


Updated 03/16/11 4:17 PM · Posted by · 16 comments

Artist Alex Holder's I Love You But Project

Artist Alex Holder is making headlines now for re-creating old-school romance novel covers, but I'm more interested in her side project ILoveYouBut.com. The website is a picture book filled with caricatures and quotes about the moments people realized relationships were over; basically dealbreakers that emerge once you're in the relationship. Some are serious, like "I love you, but I don't like Read more

Group Therapy: Can I Win Him Back?


Updated 11/22/11 1:56 PM · Posted by · 10 comments

Winning Back Boyfriend

This question is from a Group Therapy post in our TrèsSugar Community. Add your advice in the comments! After nearly a year of dating, I broke up with my adoring boyfriend because I was experiencing some conflicted emotions and was scared of further commitment. This whole situation made me realize just how much I really loved him and realizing my mistake, I attempted to reconcile. I realized Read more

More Breakups Than New Relationships on Facebook in 2010


Updated 01/04/11 2:28 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

2010 Facebook Relationship Status Changes

When you look at 2010 by the numbers, it looks like a brokenhearted year for Facebook users. Thirty-five percent more users changed their relationship status to "single" than to "in a relationship." Here's the breakdown: 43.9 million people changed their relationship status to single 3 million changed it to it’s complicated 28.5 million changed their status to in a relationship 6 million to Read more

Do Celebrity Breakups Bum You Out?


Updated 10/12/10 2:34 PM · Posted by · 15 comments

Do Celebrity Breakups Bum You Out?

Yesterday's news that Courteney Cox and David Arquette had separated after 15 years together came as a surprise. Just last week in their PSA against domestic violence they seemed like a happy, albeit slightly out there, couple. Courteney and David say they'll try to make things work, but David's TMI appearance on Howard Stern this morning might set things back. Looking back, Courteney has been Read more

What Would You Want in a Breakup Gift Basket?


Updated 08/17/10 9:09 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 14 comments

Breakup Gift Basket With Il Bastardo Wine, Snacks

Don't want to show up at a divorce party empty-handed? Behold the breakup gift basket! Yes, someone has actually made this: the Il Bastardo Breakup Wine Gift Basket could be yours or your forlorn friend's for just $55. The breakup basket comes filled with a bottle of Il Bastardo wine (clever!), lots of pig-out-worthy snacks (questionable), and a book called Quickie Stickies: 100 Pick-Me-Ups for Read more