Miley said on the Call Your Daddy podcast that, frankly, she was a logical person more vulnerable to stoically analyze what went incorrect in a situation than freak out about it. Which, she acknowledged, is not necessarily something you may tell about her just by looking.
“I had a really, very public, very big breakup that was over a 10-year span of a relationship,” she explained. “Sitting with me now, I might hope you discover me to be somewhat this fashion—which shouldn’t be the public perception—is I’m very logical. I’m very organized and really form of center. And so, I really like lists. Lists keep my whole f–king world on course.”
Relationship postmortems are not any different.
“And so, with heartbreak, I attempted to not wander off in the emotion,” Miley continued. The top of a relationship generally is a devastating loss, but “to not wander off in emotion, to deal with the logic, is to make a listing of what you were gaining and what you were losing, what they were contributing to your life and what they were subtracting and to value each of this stuff by one through 10, and you then add all of them up.
“And if the person was adding more to your life, then you recognize what is anticipated in your next relationship and, what they were subtracting, you recognize what you won’t accept ever again.”