# Don't go breakin' my heart **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187 "2025-08-18T05:05:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/1 "2025-08-18T05:05:46Z")
If you open your heart to someone and they stomp allover it what is your next action? Cry? Fight? Run? Cuss? Don’t care one bit? Or, other? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/2 "2025-08-18T05:33:04Z")
Thanks, Beck. Now I have an earworm of an Elton John/Kiki Dee song. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/3 "2025-08-18T05:51:17Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Or, other? Other: get even. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/4 "2025-08-18T06:02:20Z")
I knew it would put a worm in your ear. Sorry 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/5 "2025-08-18T06:10:20Z")
No worries, Beck. Happy memories of doing this duet with a nice young lady at karaoke. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/6 "2025-08-18T06:14:42Z")
Nice. Is that the _whole_ story? Another broken heart in your wake, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/7 "2025-08-18T06:36:52Z")
Naw, she was just a nice friend, is all. Though if anything more had happened, I probably wouldn’t have said no. Beautiful voice though. I had to stretch to reach Elton’s tenor, but I managed. She could hit Kiki Dee’s notes effortlessly. She’s now a corporate lawyer in Vancouver. Maybe I need to plan a trip … ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/8 "2025-08-18T06:47:20Z")
You have the perfect line already. “_Don’t go breaking my heart_…” Do it!! ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/9 "2025-08-18T07:08:13Z")
Beck, that was over 20 years ago. If she remembers me at all, I think it would be more for me being the klutz who spilled his beer in his lap, rather than her duet partner on “Don’t Go Breakin’ My Heart.” As Simon and Garfunkel sang, "“Preserve your memories; they’re all that’s left you.” So if all I have are happy memories of the young lady; well, I’ll take those. ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/10 "2025-08-18T12:32:33Z")
The most succinct answer to this is the sign you often see at Bait & Tackle shops: “BEER AS COLD AS YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND’S HEART” ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/11 "2025-08-18T13:45:11Z")
Walk away. And remember. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/12 "2025-08-18T14:03:20Z")
Harry Nilsson said it very eloquently: _You’re breaking my heart,_ _You’re tearin’ it apart,_ _So fuck you._ ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/13 "2025-08-18T14:53:10Z")
_You dun stomped on my heart And you mashed that sucker flat. You just sorta Stomped on my aorta_ [Song by John Denver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79FracPReK4) To answer the question, eons ago when we were in the Navy, Mike was deployed on a carrier and I wasn’t. But we wrote, till he wrote to dump me. So I, in my mature way, got my hair cut. I’d been growing it long for him, which was a pain in uniform, having to pin it up. Guess I showed him!!! I was also going to send back everything he’d ever given me, but I decided he wasn’t worth the postage. I still have the necklace from him almost 50 years later. I’ve occasionally wondered what became of him, but his name is common enough that googling is a waste of time. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/14 "2025-08-18T15:09:02Z")
Good tune. Your ear worm could be worse. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/15 "2025-08-18T15:17:46Z")
Well, if you do, give me a call! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/16 "2025-08-18T16:17:21Z")
_“_…call me (call me)_, on the line_ _Call me, anytime_ _Call me, call me_….” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/17 "2025-08-18T17:44:40Z")
I cry for a while and then move on. Certainly anyone getting into a relationship must know…love is a battlefield. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/18 "2025-08-18T19:17:40Z")
Now I got an earworm. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-go-breakin-my-heart/1022187/19 "2025-08-18T19:19:13Z")
I woke up with it in my head and felt the need to pass it on.