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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Eilidh Dorgan

How to break up without destroying your life (a psychologist's guide for Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry)

As Orlando Bloom emerges from the depths of his newfound bachelorhood to promote a new film, inevitable questions about his breakup have arisen (and been duly side-stepped). While he won’t go into details, he did provide one insight into his split with Katy Perry, stating; “it’s all love, you know?”. But alas, Orlando, I for one, do not know. As someone with at least two actively irate ex-boyfriends and a third who still harbours resentment regarding some “missing” jeans, I have a lot to learn about breaking up serenely, in an “it’s all love” kind of way. From what I’ve seen via friends and family, most of us aren’t fully aware of the rules and regulations of splitting up, so I took my queries to two experts; couple’s counsellor Hilda Burke, and relationship therapist, and former divorce lawyer, Joanna Harrison, to ask them How To Break Up.

Know That If You Want To Break Up, They Probably Do Too

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