{"id":55451,"date":"2018-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/55451\/9-ways-beirut-wont-let-you-get-over-a-breakup"},"modified":"2018-05-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T00:00:00","slug":"9-ways-beirut-wont-let-you-get-over-a-breakup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/55451\/9-ways-beirut-wont-let-you-get-over-a-breakup\/","title":{"rendered":"9 Ways Beirut Won&#8217;t Let You Get Over A Breakup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut is quite intense, especially when and if you&#8217;ve spend a long time in it. When it comes to memories and past experiences, Beirut gets very heavy, and every corner will be brimming with blasts from the past, so you can imagine how hard it is to get over a breakup in our lovely little city. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>1. Everyone will ask you about them<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/X4YqmJEl6wJoY\/200.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  From the <i>dekkanje<\/i> to the <i>natour<\/i>, everyone is gonna be like, <i>&#8220;wen hal benet elle betdal ma3ek?&#8221;<\/i> Because privacy in Lebanon is totally MIA. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>2. Music is never updated in pubs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/PPnVP0Nh8275u\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  If you had a song that&#8217;s &#8220;your song&#8221;, expect to hear it played over and over in every single pub in Beirut, because we&#8217;re still listening to &#8220;IT STARTED OUT WITH A KISS, HOW DID IT END UP LIKE THIS. IT WAS ONLY A KISS!! IT WAS ONLY A K I S S!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  <b>3. You will keep seeing &#8220;your spot&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/data.whicdn.com\/images\/133785739\/large.jpg\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Beirut is so tiny that your personal life and professional one usually merge, with your office being right next to the place you and your partner had your first kiss. Good luck forgetting them when you pass by your favourite spot every single day. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>4. The same parties<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/d9YpHmnGFp1ny\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  If you&#8217;ve spent any time with them in summer, you&#8217;ll be getting repeats of every party you&#8217;ve been to, unless you completely give up on going to Decks, CUNXT, or MWF. Which is impossible to avoid if you have any semblance to a social life. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>5. You&#8217;ll run into &#8220;their people&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reactiongifs.com\/r\/goys.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Because God hates you and Beirut is the size of a pea, you&#8217;ll keep running into them, their cousins, or their friends. Be ready to get death stares.<\/p>\n<p>  <b>6. Facebook<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/f9912df2903c8eeeb6a6c8b88cc4838f\/tumblr_n46184yY4y1tuk7ruo1_500.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Unless you plan to remove every single friend you have in common, you&#8217;ll keep seeing them pop up on your timeline. Also birthdays. Facebook will keep reminding you of their birthday. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>7. Drunk meals<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.playbuzz.com\/cdn\/e966621e-7788-4dac-88c3-b01a94d52ad0\/562d797c-1479-4d8f-8c26-cfb8b11d3cc4.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Beirut has a wide array of restaurants, but come nighttime, you have very few options on what to devour after a night out. And while you are devouring your sad meal, be sure that you are 100% going to run into them. Just order in. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>8. Statistics<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.giphy.com\/media\/c7PcKQlOqZ8Ws\/giphy.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  There are three places to drink; Mar Mikhael, Badaro, and Hamra. So you have a 1\/3 chance to bump into them while being completely shitfaced every Friday night. Don&#8217;t look at me, blame the maths. <\/p>\n<p>  <b>9. Their mother<\/b><\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn1.clevver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/joel-mchale-throwing-phone.gif\"width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>  Receiving <i>&#8220;Saba7 el wared ya warde&#8221;<\/i> messages every single morning from the woman who birthed your ex-girlfriend won&#8217;t particularly help you get over her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut is quite intense, especially when and if you&#8217;ve spend a long time in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-55451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-listomania"],"authorship":[73],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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