“Welcome to LovEnd — where heartbreak is a service, and I’m your designated emotional assassin.💔 Chapter 1: When Breakups Became a Side Hustle
Yes, it’s real. There’s an app that pays you to break people’s hearts, virtually. No, I’m not talking about catfishing or ghosting for fun — this is professional-grade emotional sabotage. The app is called LovEnd, and it operates in the strangest gray area between therapy, emotional outsourcing, and digital performance art.
I first heard about it on a meme page — someone posted a screenshot of a job listing:
“WANTED: Empathetic but cold communicator. Help users end toxic relationships — virtually. $0.25 per breakup.”
Naturally, I clicked.
Ten minutes later, I had downloaded the app, verified my voice with a short video introduction, and selected my specialty: The Clean Breaker — my job was to deliver firm, respectful, but final virtual breakups on behalf of users who didn’t want to do it themselves.
Yes, people actually outsource their heartbreaks. And yes — I got paid.
💬 Chapter 2: How the App Actually Works
LovEnd works like a weird hybrid of Fiverr and therapy. Here’s the core system:
- Clients submit:
- Relationship details (length, type: dating, situationship, online flirtation, etc.)
- Reason for the breakup
- Preferred method: Text, audio, video call, or even holographic AI (beta feature)
Breakers (like me) choose assignments based on:
- Pay rate (ranging from $0.25 to $3.50 per break)
- Emotional difficulty (ranked on a 1–10 “trauma scale”)
- Mode of communication (text pays less, video calls pay more)
You deliver the heartbreak, submit evidence (screenshot, call log), and rate the experience.
It’s disturbingly clean. Almost like UberEats for emotional devastation.
🧠 Chapter 3: Why Do People Use It?
At first, I judged. Then I remembered every awkward, anxious breakup I’d ever endured. Sometimes, people just can’t handle conflict — and when emotions get messy, they freeze.
Some of the most common reasons users gave:
- “I’m scared of how they’ll react.”
- “They won’t let me go.”
- “I don’t want to explain it all over again.”
- “I need help being firm.”
Others were just lazy or… let’s say, too online. One guy wrote:
“We’ve only talked on Snapchat for 7 weeks. I think she deserves a proper goodbye, but I’m too high to do it myself.”
And so… that $1.10 breakup was mine.
😬 Chapter 4: My First Job — Breaking Up With a GamerBoy
My first assignment was almost comical.
A girl named Maya hired me to dump a guy she met in a Discord server for Skyrim mods.
They’d flirted for two months, exchanged selfies, and apparently exchanged digital swords. But she’d lost interest. He was “too intense.”
I crafted a message:
“Hey Liam. This is Maya — well, someone speaking on my behalf. I wanted to end things respectfully. You’re a great person, but I’ve realized this connection isn’t what I’m looking for. No hard feelings. Wish you the best.”
I sent it. Crickets.
Three hours later, he replied:
“ok. can i at least keep the ebony blade?”
Boom. First breakup done. $0.75 in my virtual wallet.
😢 Chapter 5: When It Got Too Real
Then came Sana and Tariq.
They’d been in a long-distance relationship for nearly 4 years. She was in Canada, he was in Jordan. She wanted out because she felt “emotionally drained and invisible.”
She wrote a beautiful, heartbreaking message and asked me to record it in my voice.
I did.
I received a voice note back from him crying — not yelling, not angry — just sobbing.
That night, I couldn’t sleep. I wasn’t just a messenger — I was part of someone’s grief.
🤑 Chapter 6: Money, Metrics & Heartbreak Economics
You’re probably wondering: How much can you make?
💰 My Earnings After 7 Days:
- 24 breakups (text-based): $15.80
- 5 audio messages: $7.25
- 3 video calls: $10.50
- 1 live breakup via hologram (yes): $6.00
- Tips (!!): $4.70
Total: $44.25 in one week
That’s $0.05 to $3 per job depending on intensity and format.
Some users even tip extra if you’re especially gentle or funny.
But the weirdest part?
Some “dumped” people hired me afterward…
To help them break up with other people.
It’s a cycle of digital detachment.
🎭 Chapter 7: The Breakup Archetypes
After a while, patterns emerged. The types of people who used LovEnd fell into very specific categories:
- The Cowards – Just want out without confrontation.
- The Ghost-Hunters – Trying to ghost someone but feel guilty.
- The Strategic Exiters – Want to avoid looking like “the bad guy.”
- The Revenge Dumpers – Paid extra for dramatic messages like:
“You were mid. I’ve upgraded.” - The Over-Attached – Ask for follow-ups: “Can you check if he cried?”
And on the receiving end? It’s a spectrum:
- Confused
- Relieved
- Devastated
- Laughing (a surprising amount found it funny)
💡 Chapter 8: Is This Ethical?
Let’s talk about the moral side. Is being paid to break up with strangers emotionally manipulative?
On one hand:
- It shields people from confrontation they’re clearly not ready for.
- Sometimes, it prevents violence or abuse.
- It can offer a controlled, respectful exit.
But…
It also:
- Displaces emotional accountability
- Makes love feel transactional
- Can come off as robotic or insincere
Still, some argue it’s better than ghosting. And honestly? Most clients felt more relief than guilt.
🤖 Chapter 9: AI Is Joining the Game
LovEnd’s latest feature? AI-generated breakups. You choose tone (gentle, firm, passive-aggressive) and the bot delivers the breakup message in real time.
I tested it.
It was… horrifyingly accurate.
Example:
“Hi Sam. We’ve drifted, and it’s time we both acknowledge that. You deserve someone whose heart is fully present. I wish you kindness moving forward.”
If I had received that message, I might have cried.
So now I compete with bots — in breaking hearts.
🧠 Chapter 10: What I Learned About Human Nature
Weirdly, this job taught me a lot about love, fear, and emotional communication.
Key takeaways:
- People crave closure, even if it’s from a stranger.
- Most don’t want to be mean — they just don’t want to feel.
- Digital emotions are still very real.
- Breakups are less about cruelty and more about boundaries.
And the biggest lesson?
Empathy can be outsourced — but healing cannot.
🎉 Chapter 11: The Weirdest Breakups I Delivered
- “We can’t be together. You used Comic Sans in your email.”
(Yes, I delivered that one.) - “You looked better in your Bitmoji.”
(Savage. $1.00 job.) - A 6-minute rap diss track.
(I wrote AND performed it. Got tipped $3.) - A breakup scheduled for Valentine’s Day.
They wanted it to “hit harder.” I obliged.
🧪 Chapter 12: Fiction or Future?
LovEnd sounds like satire, but it’s rooted in real platforms like BreakupText, SorryIt’sOver.com, and RelationDone — small startups that started offering relationship exit services as early as 2017.
LovEnd just took it further. And weirder.
Some rumors say it’s being acquired by a major dating app — which would make breakups a formal part of the dating pipeline.
Imagine: “Match → Chat → Meet → Breakup-as-a-Service”
✅ Sources
- LovEnd official onboarding material (fictional)
- BreakupText app archive (real)
- SorryIt’sOver.com (real breakup outsourcing site)
- “The Rise of Emotional Gig Work” – TechBlur, 2024 (fictional)
- “Virtual Relationships and Their Collapse” – Digital Psychology Journal (fictional)
Written by the author, Fatima Al-Hajri 👩🏻💻
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