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a back to her, and I go back to her.

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I go back to her. Good evening and welcome to late night women's are with me Emma Barnett in the

hot seat where nothing is off the table. Cast your mind back. The unhappiness started a long time ago.

We agreed, we differed, the problems rumbled on in the background and we tried to ignore it,

bumbling on through thick and thin, but the rot had set in.

Eventually we couldn't paper over our differences any longer and made the decision to

split. Now the name calling has started. As the country undergoes what's shaping up to be a painful and protracted breakup in the form of Brexit,

here on late night women's hour this month we're looking at breakups but on the personal rather than the political level.

I'll concede it's highly unlikely that you've ever called an ex a mutton-headed mugwump unless

you've dated our foreign secretary of course Boris Johnson his pet name there for Jeremy Corbyn.

But I bet you've called your ex something as equally as insulting if not a heck of

a lot worse to their face, your friends, their friends, or maybe you've just gone for it on social media.

So how can we learn to whether this most painful of personal storms a bit better?

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