Episode 123: Breakups
Released February 11th, 2025
It’s not you, it’s me… In episode 123 of Overthink, Ellie and David get into the highs and lows of breakups. What, if anything, is valuable about breakups? Does society’s emphasis on monogamy affect how we conceptualize the end of relationships? And what do you do if your ex still has your Netflix password? Your hosts discuss everything from breakups in the age of social media and chemical solutions to heartache to what the laws against domestic abuse and stalking can tell us about how society views breakups. Plus, in the bonus, they take a look at Kierkegaard’s love life and discuss whether it’s ever truly possible to breakup with someone for purely altruistic reasons.
Works Discussed
Brian D Earp et. al, “If I Could Just Stop Loving You: Anti-Love Biotechnology and the Ethics of a Chemical Breakup”
Kelli María Korducki, Hard To Do: The Surprising, Feminist History of Breaking Up
Pilar Lopez-Cantero, “The Break-Up Check: Exploring Romantic Love through Relationship Terminations”
Ovid, Remedia Amoris
Deborah Tuerkheimer, “Breakups”
Jennifer Wilson, “The New Business of Breakups”
