Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 67, 68, 69
Part 67: 81 days, 16 hours, 43 minutes since you left me...
I didn't think the holidays would be this hard. But they are. They are particularly hard.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 66: 79 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes since you left me...
I am confusing passion with chaos.
I spent ten years with you. Ten years with a man who was gentle, but not passionate. You were dead a lot of the time, you had no fire and very little spark.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 66: 79 days, 18 hours, 20 minutes since you left me...
I am confusing passion with chaos.
I spent ten years with you. Ten years with a man who was gentle, but not passionate. You were dead a lot of the time, you had no fire and very little spark.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 61 to 65
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 59 & 60
67 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes since you left me...
Today, I sat on my couch and worked on my book proposal on my laptop.
Sometimes, I caught up on my reading.
Sometimes, my reading was a real book. Sometimes, my reading was plain old magazines.
Then I had a cheeseburger and fries, which I haven't had in several months.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 57 & 58
Part 57: 65 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes since you left me...
Wow. Being a grown up is hard work.
I've been in a financial and emotional shit storm since you left and it's just getting worse. Add to the fact that this is really the first time I guess that I've really been on my own, ever, in my life. I'm learning really quickly as I go. I've never worked so hard to learn and stay afloat in my life.
Crapadoodle.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 56: 64 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes since you left me...
My head is cocked to the side like a puppy when you call it for the first time from across the room.
The mental hairdo is gently braided into two Swiss Miss plaits on either side of my puppy head.
I am Gretel, the Burnese Mountain Dog.
And things have been ruff.
Oh God, my sides...!
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 55: 61 days, 23 hours, 36 minutes since you left me...
All hell broke loose with my best friend back home for the holiday, he got batshit alcoholic and I got batshit codependent.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 53 and 54
Part 53: 58 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes since you left me...
My Mental Hairdo has bed head.
Foggy and disheveled.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 52
Part 52: 57 days, 9 hours, 24 minutes since you left me...
You took a part of me with you when you left.
You took the part of me that relegates my emotional self-control.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 51: 54 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes since you left...
Staying up all night took it's toll, alright.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 50
Part 50: 54 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes since you left me...
I am staying up all night tonight because I fly at 6am.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 49: 52 days, 9 hours, 50 minutes since you left me... There was a great loss in my life last night.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 47
Part 47: 51 days, 24 hours, 0 minutes since you left me...
I received a message from someone who knew you a long time ago. She had been reading my blog and told me to stay strong. She recollected how you were back in the day and
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 46
Part 46: 50 days, 1 hour, 31 minutes since you left me...
As I rode the subway to the Horrorfest, I wrote this:
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 39, 40, 41 & 42
Part 39: 45 days, 12 hours, 0 minutes since you left me...
I just wanted to say how glad I am that people are reading this, not just because it shows that you're an asshole.
PS: You ARE an asshole.
It's inspiring a lot of folks and some folks are feeling not so alone and this sentence sounds a little too Arlo Guthrie for my doggone sensibilities.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 38
Part 38: 45 days, 8 hours, 17 minutes since you left me...
Home for the holidays looms over me like the cloud that ate Donald Pleasence in "Fantastic Voyage". Oh, just eat me already!
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 37
Part 37: 44 days, 9 hours, 52 minutes since you left me...
Sex.
My first husband was a treat. Very dominant, and that's putting it lightly. He always wanted a three-way. I had been to college, so I'd been there, done that. I wasn't interested.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 35 and 36
Part 35: 42 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes since you left me...
I flirted shamelessly today.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 34: 41 days, 8 hours, 0 minutes since you left me...
I used to ask you, "If you ever met my father, what would you do?" You would say, "I don't know". Kind of that cereal-in-his-mouth, ask-him-at-breakfast, 13-year-old-wearing-a-Nine Inch Nails hoodie answer with a shrug of the shoulders mutter, you know?
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 33 & 34
Part 33: 39 days, 8 hours, 19 minutes since you left me...
You are such scum.
A little birdy, a very thoughtful and caring birdie, told me you were moving to Austin.
The birdie "thought I should know".
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Parts 31 & 32
Part 31: 37 days, 21 hours, 50 minutes after you left me...
I have tried to take a vow that I will never let people shit all over me anymore.
Even after I have become so strong after you shit all over me and refuse to take your bullshit anymore, what do I do?
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts Part 29
Part 29: 36 days, 14 hours,11 minutes since you left me...
Yesterday, after a rehearsal, I went to Old Navy to use a "Free Pair of Jeans" thingy I got from a goodie bag at a party I went to in August.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts Part 28
Part 28: 35 days... 15 hours... 4 minutes since you left me...
It's not that I love you anymore. It's not that I want you in my life anymore as a friend, as a lover (I can't even think that far back), or as a husband.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale In So Many Parts
Part 26 & 27
Part 26: 33 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes since you left me...
Everyone who has looked at me or "Winked" at me on Match.com is not what I am looking for. Everyone I think is groovy, I frighten away.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 24& 25
Part 24: 31 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes since you left me…
I was able to articulate the "five kinds of crazy" to you.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 23
Well, I'm just plain stupid. And ashamed. And I feel like I could take five showers in a row.
I called you yesterday. I left you a message.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Parts 21 & 22
Part 21: 26 days... 14 hours... 37 minutes since you left me...
Today, I met with a friend for lunch and she is confident that you dig the boys.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Parts 19 & 20
Part 19: 24 days, 15 hours, 5 minutes since you left me...
You and I never had a real date.
I was still married to my first husband when we met. That marriage was later annulled.
We met at an improv jam. You had long hair and you wore a jester hat.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Parts 17 & 18
Part 17: 21 days, 16 hours, 14 minutes since you left me...
I don't know what I did to make you hate me so much.
I don't know when you'll stop hating me so much.
And I don't know when I'll stop caring about it so much.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Parts 15 & 16
Part 15: 19 days, 23 hours, 45 minutes since you left me...
Yesterday was my birthday.
You didn't even call me.
You really know how to hurt a girl.
Ten years.
You really know how to hurt a girl.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 14: 17 days, 11 hours, 59 minutes since you left me
Today I was listening to "Radar Love" by Golden Earring, one of the greatest driving songs ever, and I realized that you never knew a great driving song because you never learned how to drive! As much as I begged.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 13: 16 Days, 11 Hours, 45 Minutes Since You Left...
My birthday is Monday.
I asked you if we were doing anything. Because I'm an idiot.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 11: 13 days, 20 hours and 55 minutes since you left me...
Today, I felt more sick and sad than I have through this whole thing.
-- Sad because the cruel and angry things you said to me the night you left still play in my head.
-- Sick because I don't know who you are and I don't like you very much.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 10: 12 days, 20 hours, 2 minutes since you left me...
Today, you sent me this email: "I need for us to separate and for each of us to move on. So much has happened that I cannot come back. This is hard for me to say, but necessary."
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Parts 7, 8 & 9
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Part 7: 9 days, 15 hours, 38 minutes since you left me...
Today I spoke to you on the phone.
It wasn't good.
I called you, amongst other things, "jack rag", "pig", "jack ass", "baby", "f’ing liar", "big man" and "worthless". I called you "worthless" before hanging up on you.
Adrianne Frost A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 6: 8 days, 21 hours, 8 minutes since you left me...
Today, on the train, I was bringing you a box of clothes at work, through a mutual friend who is your co-worker, and I was braiding the plastic on the big bag holding the box.
Adrianne Frost - A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
By Adrianne Frost
Part 5: 7 days, 18 hours, 12 minutes since you left
Today I was thinking on the train, which I try not to do these days, because folks stare when I cry, How can you just "move on" after 10 years?!!? How does that work?
"Well, that's done."
Like pulling a tooth.
Adrianne Frost - A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 4: 6 days, 12 hours and 4 minutes since you left me...
Today I have no plans. I'm supposed to go to the gym. I probably will. I feel like lying in bed all day. This is where the sadness catches up. Screw it all.
Adrianne Frost - A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 3: 4 days, 13 hours, 39 minutes since you left me
I'm glad most of your shit is boxed up and put away.
But I don't want you or anyone else to come and get it. I don't want it gone forever. Just live with whatever you have: your plaid shorts, your mandals, your Old Navy Khakis and my Samsonite luggage.
Adrianne Frost - A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 2: 3 days, 11 hours and 34 minutes since you left
*NEW WRITER* Adrianne Frost - A Breakup Tale in So Many Parts
Part 1: 2 Days, 20 Hours, 8 Minutes Since You Left Me…
London, January, 2006
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