Taylor Swift wrote a song. Elin Nordegren got a golf club. Sandra Bullock got a baby. Guys, what's the best way to get revenge on someone who breaks your heart?

Reformed Player says:

 
The best revenge when someone breaks your heart is to first, contain your emotions. Fight back the tears. Shake her hand and wish her all the happiness. Then keep it together until you get home, grab a pillow, climb into the shower with your clothes on, turn on the shower, and scream into that pillow. Scream until your eyes are swollen shut.

Then spend the next five years training yourself. Become the pinnacle of human perfection. Study combat, acrobatics, and sword-play. Become Zorro.

When your ex is invariably kidnapped by evil Aztec ghosts or dastardly vanqueros, stage a daring rescue! Afterward, as she swoons, reveal your true identity and say "Zorro don't want your nasty lovin'."

And ride away on your steed.

Chic Geek says:

Revenge is overrated. Look at The Punisher. The Mob killed his family way back in 1974, so he made it his mission to wage war on crime. Only problem is, crime never ends. Now it's 36 years later, and what does he have to show for it? Three terrible movies and some mediocre comic books, that's what.

Also, unless you're famous and can write a hit song about the womanizing douchebag who wronged you and actually put his name in the title (ahem, Taylor Swift), your revenge will probably be fleeting. Oh, it will be satisfying at first. But the further you get away from it, the emptier you'll feel. (Kind of like a Taylor Swift album.)

Living well is indeed the best revenge. And it's so much easier to live well in public now. You don't have to "accidentally" bump into your ex with your new boyfriend-- you can just post tons of photos of you and your (much hotter) new guy on Facebook. Tweet your happiness. Become the "mayor" of your new guy's bedroom on Foursquare. Revenge is a dish best served in public.

Girl's BFF says:

Aside from the obvious reply of murder - just joking, it's all jokes kiddies, seriously - the only true revenge is to just do you. And in that sense, its not even revenge, it's called good living. I guess because I don't really believe in revenge in general it's hard for me to think of exactly how to make somebody's life worse, which is the point of revenge, no? Why devote that much time to somebody who didn't give a crap about you. I realize that emotions get involved and when we feel pain we want others to feel it too, but karma is a b*tch. How can you move on with your own life if you're trying to figure out how to bring somebody else's down. And remember you can't hold somebody else down unless you stay down there with them. So do what other people do, upgrade. And then put all of the pictures on Facebook and tag the pictures. OR if you have enough money, go buy a huge billboard in NYC and make sure that people know that your ex cheated on you with however so many people. That's cold hearted, but see, nobody loses there. Kind of.

Wise Ass says:

I've always heard that living well is the best revenge. In this case that means moving on and living your life happily. Even if you're devastated, you will survive, so have a pissed-off/man-hating/mourning period and then get back in the game. It's not revenge along the lines of setting his house on fire or cutting the brake lines on his car, but it's much better for your mental health and you won't go to jail. If you happen to bump into your ex when you're out on a date or having a good time with friends, even better.

The worst thing you can do is talk trash about him to anyone who will listen. It just makes you look petty and pathetic. Take the high road and don't let them see you sweat the breakup.

Gal Pal says:

Write it down. Write down every horrible thing he did. Write down everything you want to do to him. Write down how long you cried. Write down how much you loved him. Write down the way things should have turned out. Write down your new happy ending.

Then slide those pages in your desk for awhile. Don't send them to him. A few months from now, you'll probably have moved on to someone new to write about. Or maybe you'll have a bestseller in your hands!