“We can track people over time and ask them to fill out surveys, but we can’t exactly follow them around in their personal life and record conversations with friends and family about their breakups,” Seraj says. Researchers typically use retrospective self-reports to work out what went down - and if you've ever listened to a friend recount their own breakup story, you will know these retellings may not be as reliable or as objective as science demands. How breakups unfold - Breakups, Seraj explains, are difficult to study in a natural setting. "The cracks in the relationship can appear sometime before the actual end of the relationship, which can come up when people talk to others about it." “Changes in people’s language even before the actual breakup means that even though they didn’t necessarily know the end of the relationship was coming, it was already affecting their life," she says. “These changes were detectable even when people weren’t directly talking about their relationship, showing the impact breakups have on all aspects of their life,” Seraj says. She tells Inverse the effect of a breakup goes far beyond the romantic realm. Sarah Seraj is a research assistant at the University of Texas at Austin and the lead author on the study. Language showed signs of increased cognitive processing.Language became more personal, with the increased use of “I” and “we.”.Two common changes in post language observed were: Language markers used to detect impending breakups, in turn, lasted up to six months after the event. The findings suggest people are affected by a future breakup before they’re even aware a breakup is on the cards. The team discovered this shift by taking a close look at Redditors' posts to Reddit’s r/BreakUps - a forum for anonymous discussion of failed relationships - before and after they shared their own story to the forum. In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers show how impending breakups can be identified up to three months before they actually occur. Breakups shake up a person's world so much, new research suggests, you might be in the process of ending things without even realizing. The last chapter of a romantic relationship is often plagued by questions - What changed? Who changed? - and some serious soul-searching and rumination. Breakups are a fundamental part of the human experience, but heartbreak is never routine.
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