30-Day Breakup Guide: Day 10

Change Your Perspective
Find a museum in your city or town, and check to see if they have any current exhibits featuring female artists. If so, hop in your car and go—no matter how badly you want to continue watching “America’s Next Top Model” reruns and eating the rest of that bag of Bugles. Women’s perceptions of the world are distinctly different from the mainstream. Photographers Catherine Opie and Cindy Sherman have challenged the idea of traditional domesticity. Jill-of-all-trades artist Sophie Calle has been known to look at intimacy in a way that’s completely thrilling and totally weird: For her 2007 piece “Take Care of Yourself,” she took a breakup e-mail from her lover and had 107 different women (a proofreader, a clown, a lawyer, etc.) interpret it via performance, video, writing, you name it. She even went to an appointment with a marriage counselor and put a printout of the breakup letter in the other chair. Yes, really.

Did you just go through a horrible breakup? Is your heart in a million little pieces? Whether you got dumped or did the dumping, splitting up with someone sucks. But have no fear, The Frisky’s 30-Day Breakup Guide is here! Once you’ve a good cry over the loss of your relationship, spend the next month working on yourself. We’ll be posting detailed instructions for the next 30 days to help you get over he-who-shall-not-be-named. There’s even a handy-dandy calendar to help you keep track of your progress. Now get to work!