Negative reacting leads to negative perception

Former lovers secretly enjoy knowing that they still have an effect on the people they used to date. Whether it was a summer fling or a long term relationship, you want to know that you made some sort of impact in that persons life. Usually, the most memorable people you used to date/smash either really made you happy or really pissed you off. When you go over that emotional cliff and decide to take it out on inanimate objects, you prove that those people still matter. When you publicize it to the world, you confirm that statement with others. You turn the original “guilty” party into a social martyr, and whatever pity you might have received will be null and void.