Unhappy Hipsters

His playful eHarmony ad (“conservative in the kitchen, liberal everywhere else”) belied a disconcertingly humorless reality.

(Photo: Dean Kaufman; Dwell)

Overmedicated, inured to the sting of abandonment, she found solace in planning another renovation.

(Photo: Gregg Segal; Dwell)

She’d perfected the post-breakup stoic stride.

(Photo: Dave Lauridsen; Dwell)

It was far more satisfying to relive their romance via iPhoto slideshow.

(Photo: Zubin Shroff; Dwell)

Although the symbolic bed of rocks was meant to prove a point to his ex, he realized the only person he was hurting was himself.

(Photo: Stefano Buonamici; New York Times)

He wasn’t sure how he’d become the third wheel in their relationship.

(Photo: Roger Davies; Dwell)

How had they gone from scraping together enough money for a bottle of Jameson and staying up all night listening to Pixies b-sides to fighting with their contractor over the discrepancies between the muddy-brown siding and the cocoa-chip mulch?

(Photo: Peter Bennetts; Dwell)

His first day in the house and little Alfie was alarmed—even their hobbies were joyless. (He’d be hitting the catnip hard.)

(Photo: Lorne Bridgman; Dwell)