<prompt> Human: For any of you who have gone through a major breakup and gone from splitting expenses to handling it solo any advice? Any traps to avoid falling into? I think this might be a good time to go from renting to owning a smaller place... Thanks in advance.  <response>: I would say Im sorry to hear about your breakup, but in my experience theres usually a good reason for these things. Best of luck working through it!Im afraid I wont be much help. In my breakup I lost a financial leech, so being on my own again was much easier.I did, however, take the time to go through each of my monthly bills to see where I could make changes. I changed my cell phone plan to a cheaper option that had recently been made available. I cut my cable back to limited basic and only kept it at all because they offered me a promotion. Those two changes on their own saved be about 100 per month. The breakup was my impetus for looking into these things rather than let things go on as they had been. 