I may be a happily married woman now, but back in the day I somehow managed to work my way through enough commitment-phobic artists, actors, musicians and bad-boy bartenders to get my heart broken on a regular basis.
Each time a relationship soured, I turned to Crunchie bars and cabernet -
usually simultaneously - but why?
It seemed like such a cliche; so very Bridget Jones to turn to booze and chocolate in times of sorrow.
Thankfully research just out says that there is actually a very real reason why women turn to wine and chocolate when we're heartbroken - we simply can't help it.
According to an article in the UK's Daily Mail last week, scientists have found that jilted women have a higher tendency to turn to these things because their bodies are trying to compensate for lost love.
New research has linked rejection in romance to brain activity associated with addiction and suggests that romantic love, under both happy and unhappy circumstances, may be a "natural" addiction - just like food, wine, scrapbooking or cigarettes.
So we're not just looking for an excuse to ditch Weight Watchers and fall off the wagon, and we're not just copying those silly, soppy women on telly and in films when we hit the pick 'n' mix section at the supermarket.
We are, in fact, following a basic instinct to love someone and be loved back, because we are all afflicted with a serious case of the Robert Palmers.
When we suffer the pain of a broken romance, it's natural that women attempt to immediately fill the void with something that resembles a love fix - like a glass of good vino or a Luxury Flake.
