While it may be true that actions speak louder than words, words still hold weight. In fact, a new study published in the
The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, reviewed more than 1 million Reddit posts by 6,800 users. Specifically, they looked at users who had announced a breakup in the subreddit channel
r/BreakUps and analyzed their posts from the year before and the year after the split.
By analyzing the language used in the posts, researchers found breakups begin to affect people and the way they talk up to three months before the split occurs, and the aftermath tends to last for about six months. And no, the main linguistic indicator was not the sharing of sad song lyrics or sappy quotes it was actually a much more subtle use of pronouns.