Museums in Vienna! Never been to Duesseldorf so I can't help you there.

You're doing amazingly well, congratulations on this new phase of your life and your positive attitude!

Oh dude, that is the WORST. I'm 3 months out of a ten year relationship where he just said one day out of the blue "I don't feel committed to you and I don't see a future together". I know that world falling apart feeling, the feeling of betrayal. Why didn't she tell you years ago? Is she emotionally incompetent?

When I lived in the UK I was a research assistant on a MBCT-related study that was run by Prof Williams, and I've seen him talk a few times at conferences. I can't believe he's old enough to be thinking of retirement.

Your development is way ahead of mine then :)

I do stuff with mindfulness too (mostly MBCT) and I live on the same side of the Atlantic as you! By internet terms, that makes us practically twins.

Prosopagnosia, you can read about it in Oliver Sacks' book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat". Generally comes about as a result of brain damage to the fusiform gyrus area, though.

You don't need a liberal arts education (or indeed, a college education) to be compassionate to other people and take their needs into consideration.

Aaaaw...I miss hugs. Internet ones are still awesome :)

Yay, it's not just me then! Seriously beats my lonely undergrad way of coping, which was pull up a chair and talk to my reflection in the mirror.

Thank you :) I hope things are getting better for you, grief is so hard.

Thanks, intellectually I know it gets better when you leave a LTR but I need to hear that it really happens, for real people in real life. Everyone is telling me how strong I am, but I seem to have plateaued at a certain level of coping about a week after the breakup and it's disheartening to not be making "progress".…

Woohoo, stayed up late enough on a Sunday night for the Sign-off! I posted this earlier today in the Saturday Night Social, but imma post it again here:

I watched it 3 weeks after the breakup and brought 3 packs of tissues but I didn't cry at all :) It was actually quite light on the science, but referred to it briefly. There's mroe on the brain chemistry of love here:

What's that bit in Leviticus/Deuteronomy on not getting tattoos?

I saw that too, in school in Ireland in the 90s! It was all weird and confusing, with a grandmotherly woman sitting in an over-decorated sitting room talking about "sanitary napkins", her mouth moving as if it was a delicate pair of tongs closing around a dirty object. As a 10 year old girl, nocturnal emissions…

Exactly. Intelligence and developmental progress are not the same thing. I like your sneaky plan of changing schools after one year :)

Just wanna say that Saturday and Sunday night Jezebel is my lifeline right now, thank you all so much for being there and being chatty when I'm lonely. My 10 year relationship ended 3 months ago and I have no friends in this city, but I get a feeling of community here :) Thanks again.

Your father sounds awesome.

Well, I'm just out of a relationship that went a bit like that, so I can't give good advice or say it's all going to be okay. However, you need to say to him again that you both need to prioritise your relationship, and make a concrete plan on how to do so. It sounds like he could cut down on his hobby a bit (do it…