How to Make Your Home Your Own Again After a Breakup

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Home is where the heart is, but what happens when, in the words of Miles Gregory's classic Motown song, love don't live here anymore? There's so much more to breaking up when you live together than figuring out who gets to take the sofa…and you'll likely need to do a bit more than burn sage to make it feel like home again. First, get what you need. Literally. The very first step to focus on is making sure you have what you need to be comfortable and functional, including replacing any tools, linens, and necessary furniture that might've exited with your former flame. Heartache is hard enough without also boiling water in a mixing bowl because the stockpot was his. Second, prepare to purge. Wedding pictures, sweet souvenirs from romantic trips abroad, the teddy bear he won for you at the state fair—you don't have to throw everything away, but you need to get them out of sight. Be ruthless. Toss what you can, and store the rest. If you can't deal with things or bear to face them right now, into a box they go, and get thee to a storage unit. Consider it the IRL version of