Скачать или смотреть Safe Sex by Donald Hall (read by Tom O'Bedlam)

Love is the main source of misery in life. The people you love will hurt you more than anything else possibly could. So it is wise to choose whom you love very carefully and, if they prove deceitful or unkind, to find the courage to cut them out of your life forever.

There's an old story of a man who had a little boy, who was very dear to him, and the little boy died. He is distraught with grief so he makes a journey to the oracle to ask for advice. The oracle tells him, "It is true, father. From what is dear comes hurt and misery, anguish and despair, which comes from what is dear."

The father is taken aback and he goes around asking other people what they think. They all tell him that what you love brings joy and happiness. He asks everybody he meets, and he gets the same answer, he even asks the layabouts who play dice in the marketplace. Then you realise that you are bored with the story. This is the real lesson: your grief is boring to everybody else.

“Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.” ~Dalai Lama
When hunting for this quotation I came upon this article, which is readable and practical.
It is called "7 ways to manage a break-up and work through the pain."
http://tinybuddha.com/blog/7-ways-to-...

Paintings:
René Magritte – The Lovers 1928
Stills from the movie - Friends With Benefits.
'Solitaire' and 'Drowned' by Sam Wolfe Connelly
  / samwolfeconnelly  

If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident
they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words;
if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire
only the tribute of another's cry; if they employ each other
as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel---

then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread,
no frenzy, no hurled words of permanent humiliation,
no trembling days, no vomit at midnight, no repeated

apparition of a body floating face-down at the pond's edge