Men's Health

Give him a shoulder to cry on

The verdict: skip it

When people relive the sadness of a breakup, they tend to stay stuck in a rut of negative emotion, say researchers from Columbia University in the US and the University of California at Berkeley. So if he starts to wallow in weepy mode, remind him of all the times she pissed him off - a 2006 study published in the journal Emotion shows that heartbroken people move on faster when they're angry at their exes.

Feb 14, 2013