Reddit Heartbreak Songs

Three years of a relationship, and nobody in that house ever offered her a meal. The post keeps returning to that detail, and the detail is what tells you what kind of house it was.

Six years ago, a woman signed up for a weekend training event and asked for a sign language interpreter for the Saturday sessions. Her request landed in the inbox of a 23-year-old organizer who was al…

The morning of October 22nd began with a missing wallet. In I lost my wife last week. She was 8 months pregnant with our first baby, a husband writes down the ten minutes around seven o'clock that eve…

Five years, one house, a dog and a cat, wardrobes that matched each other, and family and friends who told them they were each other's half. That is how a 29-year-old man describes his marriage in I l…

Five years after the accident, the poster had a working theory about themselves: that they were over it. The crying had stopped. His name could be said in the middle of a sentence, at a dinner table,…

For years, the last Sunday of the month worked the same way in that house. The husband took the afternoon train into the city to hear a band. Almost nobody around them had heard of it. The poster stay…

They were about ten years old. On the walk home from school they found a black plastic bag, and the bag was moving. There were kittens inside it, several of them, alive. Somebody had left them there,…

She is twenty-six and she is planning a wedding. Her father died when she was seventeen. Her uncle died when she was twenty-three, and her mother when she was twenty-five. Now she is making the guest…

Seven years ago, a boy died at a year and a half old. A scan in his mother's third trimester had already told both parents he would not live past two. They carried him to term anyway. His father had b…

Her mother died on the twentieth of September. Less than a month later, the one thing in that house that was still warm and still breathing was Toby — six years old, grey around the muzzle, sleeping o…

The story behind this ballad happens on a night shift in a paediatric emergency department. A clinician has just settled a six-week-old into a bay — bloods sent, urine sent, the baby awake and crying…

The story behind this ballad happens at twenty-five, which is too young to be buying an urn. A young woman bought one for her big brother three weeks ago, after heart problems took him on September 21…