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" 1. Expectation: It&amp;#039;ll happen at home, in person. Reality: It&amp;#039;ll happen over text while you&amp;#039;re comparing the costs of two bulk dried couscous bags at Shopway.   2. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll have a kinda sexy screaming match that culminates in breakup sex. Reality: You will have an incredibly awkward and anxiety-ridden conversation on the couch, and not look each other in the eye.   3. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll quietly, elegantly gather the thongs that you left in the Girlfriend Drawer of his dresser. Reality: You&amp;#039;ll become a tearful ball of snot with no dignity.  4. Expectation: Seeing how upset you&amp;#039;ve made each other will make you realize how much you love each other! Reality: You&amp;#039;ll get freaked out by each other&amp;#039;s weeping.   5. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll spend the first post-breakup evening making yourself look as awesome as possible, wear your tightest freakum dress, and rebound with a member of Kings of Leon. Reality: You&amp;#039;ll spend the evening in bed, watching Sex and the City and dropping caramel popcorn all over yourself without caring.   6. Expectation: You&amp;#039;re mature enough to stay Facebook friends with him and not stalk his profile daily. Reality: When a picture of him with a bunch of girls at a bar pops up on your feed at work, you have a tiny, imperceptible breakdown until you can get to the office bathroom and have a real breakdown.   7. Expectation: Your friends will give you as much time as you need to decompress and heal. Reality: After a brief grace period, your friends will start getting kind of annoyed about how self-centered you&amp;#039;ve been. (And you have been.)   8. Expectation: You&amp;#039;ll throw yourself into work, health, or creative projects with a new gusto and wind up propelling yourself to massive success on the wings of your pain. Reality: You&amp;#039;ll accidentally memorize the backs of boxes of snack cakes.   9. Expectation: Within one month, he will become nothing more than a sniveling, unattractive shell of himself and you&amp;#039;ll wonder why you ever even liked him. Reality: Within one month, he will lose five pounds and get a tan.   10. Expectation: Within three months, he&amp;#039;ll be standing outside your window in the rain begging to get you back. Reality: Within three months, you&amp;#039;ll realize there are more fish in the sea than that one fish. That one Grand Theft Auto-playing, Family Guy boxers-wearing semi-stoner fish. And you&amp;#039;ll stop looking out your window for him.   11. Expectation: You don&amp;#039;t think about him much anymore but it&amp;#039;s tough eating out alone. Reality: You&amp;#039;re no-strings hooking up with that hot friend you always wanted, but the timing was bad. Oh, and eating out alone is awesome.   12. Expectation: You lose half your friends because they were his friends too. Reality: The people who really love you can&amp;#039;t get stolen. If they did, they weren&amp;#039;t gonna stick around anyway.   RELATED: Expectation vs. Reality: One Night Stands Expectation vs. Reality: Working Out Expectations vs. Reality: First Dates   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Summit Entertainment "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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