How to get over an ex

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What quirky revenge ideas are suggested for getting over an ex?

Gemma Cribb 0:04

One of the things I like to tell people is imagine in six months time you run into your ex in the middle of the street and I want you to imagine what you would say to him if you were able to say all the most amazing, fabulous things that you've been doing. So if that's learning the guitar, learn the guitar. If that's running a marathon, run a marathon. And then your job over the next six months is to actually make

Unknown 0:29

that happen. Not

Nat Tanchich 0:35

everyone's a fan of Valentine's Day. If you're going through a heartbreak, it can be rough watching everyone get gooey and romantic while you're just crying it out. Some people have been coping in pretty creative ways, though. For example, at El Paso Zoo in Texas, you can name a cockroach after your ex, which then gets fed to meerkats. But does this tiny act of revenge actually help you get over your ex? I'm Nat Tenchich, and soon psychologist Gemma Cribb will be in with some more measured advice. But first, hack Stephen Stockwell looks into the many, many ways you can get over your ex by getting a little bit of revenge.

Unknown 1:16

So your

Stephen Stockwell 1:24

heart has been ripped to shreds by someone and you're A, furious, and B, now living in constant fear you're going to die childless and alone because of course there's absolutely no one else in the world. This is a thing I've heard of happening to other people.

Unknown 1:37

I love Lisa Simpson and when I grow up I'm going to marry her.

Stephen Stockwell 1:42

No!

Unknown 1:44

Now you listen to me. I don't like you. I never liked you. And the only reason I gave you that stupid valentine is because nobody else would.

Stephen Stockwell 1:52

You might not have expected capitalism to come to the aid of a broken heart, but that's where you're wrong. It turns out there's a whole economy in making people either feel better about themselves or giving them an outlet for their hatred. And as much as I hate capitalism, I love revenge.

Gemma Cribb 2:05

Or maybe an ex just keeps bugging you. Okay, a zoo in Texas is here to

Stephen Stockwell 2:09

help. There's the El Paso Zoo, which if you think of your ex as a bit of an insect, will for a $2 donation name a cockroach after them, which you can watch being fed to one of their meerkats. If you don't want an effigy of your ex killed, you can hit up the Hemsley Conservation Centre in the UK, which for £1.50 will name one of their cockroaches after your ex, but keep them alive in their exhibit. Then there's the Sydney Wildlife Park, which for a $1 donation could name a brown snake after your former lover, if you give them a good enough reason.

Unknown 2:34

All proceeds go to the Wildlife Conservation Fund,

Stephen Stockwell 2:38

so it's

Unknown 2:38

all for a good cause. A lot of snakes out there to name.

Stephen Stockwell 2:44

Continuing the animal theme, you can donate 20 bucks to a wildlife park in the US and get your ex's name put on a salmon that's then fed to a bear. Although you can't sign up to this one anymore because it was overwhelmingly popular.

Unknown 2:55

The centre says they'll provide you with a special certificate and photos of Cody and Yak destroying your ex.

Stephen Stockwell 3:02

There are also options to eat away the pain, with a Sydney bakery offering anti-Valentine's bites with Jerk or Get Lost pressed into the icing, and a Brisbane cafe going with black heart-shaped biscuits with things like Bite Me, Swipe Left and Table for One iced on top.

Nat Tanchich 3:19

The Hookup on Triple J. Hackston Stockwell reporting there. So do anti-Valentine's cookies and naming cockroaches after your ex really help you move on? Got a text from Matt in Central Coast who said, I named my garbage bin after my ex. After being treated like nothing for so long, it was a good way of not being the one feeling like trash.

How does psychologist Gemma Cribb explain why revenge tricks don’t bring real closure?

Nat Tanchich 3:40

Dana from Sydney, you went through a bit of a rough breakup. How did you move on?

Unknown 3:44

Hey, yeah. It was really hard. There was a lot of crying at the beginning. Yeah,

Nat Tanchich 3:50

totally.

Unknown 3:52

A lot of confusion because I really... It was the first person I ever loved and it was really, really hard and I know a lot of why did it happen to me. But I think what was really important for me was to just reach out to people. I had moved a long way. I had no family. I moved from the Gold Coast to Sydney and I didn't have anyone and then two weeks in, me and my boyfriend broke up and he was still on the Gold Coast and I just felt so alone and I still also felt like,