The Breakup Monologues

Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian who has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Loose Ends, Midweek, The Human Zoo and Four Thought. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead? followed her TEDx talk of the same name and a trilogy of internationally-acclaimed solo shows investigating the psychology of love and relationships. Rosie also presents The Breakup Monologues podcast, which was nominated for a British Podcast Award and has been recommended by Chortle, BBC Radio 4, The Observer, Metro and Time Out. She writes for publications including the Guardian, Cosmo, The Sunday Times and New Statesman and regularly appears as a commentator on sexuality, dating and love on radio and TV programmes including Good Morning Britain.

Introduction
Prologue: The Butterfly Painting

Part One: Backwards
1 Wired for Love
2 The Lexicon of Breakups
3 I Thought I'd been Ghosted but He'd Just Gone to Prison
4 Great Expectations
5 Stuck in the Middle
6 It's All Downhill from Here
7 The Moths of Doom
8 'Just Scream!'
9 The Bisexual Comedian
10 Hormonal Hell
11 Summer Freeze
12 The Friendship Breakup
13 Only Child Syndrome
14 Unwanted Snapshots
15 Sex and Death

Part Two: Bonus Breakup Content
Breakup Playlist
Bite-Sized Breakup Stories
A Few of my Favourite Breakup Films

Part Three: Forwards
16 Beginnings are Endings and Endings are Beginnings
17 A Fart in a Graveyard … and the Value of Arguing
18 The Professional Breakup
19 Shared Values and Experiences
20 ’Til Dog Us Do Part
21 We Are Family
22 Keeping it Together, Moving On
23 Healthy Space … and a bit about Attachment Theory
24 The Good Breakup
25 Poly Breakups
26 My Chemical Romance?
27 Towards a Growth Mindset
28 Recovery and Reprogramming
29 Happy Endings
30 We're Gonna Need a Bigger Bed
Epilogue: Love in the Time of Corona
Conclusion: How Breakups Keep Us Together

Acknowledgements
Further Reading