THE LANGUAGE OF BREAKING UP (Glamour)

• Booty Haul: The act of retrieving your stuff from your partner’s apartment a few days before dumping him/her; because you know it will make you look petty to ask for it after breaking his/her hear.
• Breakover: A post-breakup makeover. Join a gym. Get a haircut or a hot new wardrobe. It’s revenge that benefits you, rather than directly harming your ex, bodily or otherwise.
• Bunny Boiler: A clingy, overbearing, vindictive, possessive, obsessive, unhinged ex, named for Glenn Close’s Fatal Attraction character, who cooks her ex-lover’s daughter’s pet rabbit.
• Command-Z: As in “Undo! Undo!” All the impulsive stuff that you say in the heat of a breakup and immediately wish you could take back.
• Endship: The imaginary friendship that is insincerely wished for — as in, “I really hope we can still be friends” — by the dumper. However, two and a half seconds after they’ve left you in a puddle on the floor, they start erasing your digits from their phone.
• Groundhog Dump: When ending a relationship is dragged out over days or weeks, forcing you to relive the breakup again and again.
• Leg-clinger: A dumpee who cries, begs and pleads with you to reconsider and take them back. Be sympathetic — we’ve all been there.