breakup Archives

How Do You Grieve the End of a Relationship That Has No Name on Paper?

I’m experiencing the end of a glorious relationship that existed outside the bounds of marriage. Over the last few weeks, I’ve heard every variation of the “get some action” line of advice. Why do we treat relationships that don’t have a clearly defined, recognisable name like they were somehow inferior?

Sonali Kokra June 6, 2016

Love and Sex

What is Love? The Right Person or the Right Time?

Is love even a person or is it just a time in life? The specificity of the timing of our great loves is the most definitive metric of whether it works long-term or not.

Aryan Malhotra May 5, 2016

Love and Sex

The Toughest Part of Breaking Up is Learning to Live with Yourself, Just for Yourself

For five years I was suffocated in a relationship of co-dependence. We were always together. But I was never present. It took me a while, but this year, I realised that I cared about my erstwhile partner a lot, but when I was with him, I had forgotten how to love myself.

Manjiri Indurkar April 9, 2016