Post #3 Book 1 Project

Book 1 Project: Why We Broke up

I want to create an app that helps people break up with their significant other. This app will feature advice and guide people through the different stages of a break up. Everyone’s break ups are different so it will start out with some categories such as: mutual, her fault, my fault, I don’t know what happened, and my life is over. Throughout the whole book Minerva (Min for short) goes through a box of her belongings and her ex-boyfriend’s items recalling short memories. No one should ever go through what Min did and this app will make sure of that. One feature that Min could have really used is the quote of the day. The app will randomly show push notifications with an inspirational quote customized to the type of break up you are going through. For example; if it was a nasty break up and inspirational quote that could pop up might be, “When one decides to start truly working on oneself and is successful in a meaning true to you, then your lover(s) will come.”

Like I said before Min spent most of her time reminiscing with old items from her relationship and even reading about at some points were just embarrassing. It even started to affect her self-esteem because of the way she was treated. "Well, today I was a sidelines girl, I guess" (p. 101). Ed (her ex-boyfriend) made Min feel like she wasn’t significant enough for him and that is not a healthy relationship. Our app is going to give tips on how to maintain a healthy relationship for future/current reference. Min slowly pushed Ed even further away by being mean to him, and this is a very common mistake between people. Min even said, "Right. You remember something else besides an old movie now, huh" (p. 123). Min obviously still cared about Ed at this point and was expressing her disappointment through mean sarcasm. At the end of the book she dumps all of the objects that she talks about onto her doorstep, and for her that was the closure to her relationship that Ed never provided. Closure is one of the most important parts of breaking up because leaving anything after a cliffhanger is never fulfilling. Instead of dumping a box full of random objects onto a door step our app provides a wide variety of closure options from solutions such a phone call-all the way to writing poem for self closure and a letter to send. We teach to “Always Be Closing.”

Our app will broaden the audience for the book because everyone will read it after downloading the app to learn exactly what NOT to do in a break up. Everyone wants to learn from others mistakes and Min sure does make a few in the book. For those who have read the book and want to download out of loyalty and fan hood the app will feature current updates on book signings, author’s current projects, and behind the scenes facts about how the book came to life.