The meanings of an engagement to be married morph over time and space as social, cultural, sexual, power relations, economic, and other contexts shift. Unlike marriage or break-ups of less public commitment, there’s no ritual for transition into or out of an engaged partnership. Unlike divorce in the United States, there’s little legal recourse for dismantling wedding plans and a planned life together when someone breaks it off before walking down the proverbial aisle. margaRed meat seeks your stories of broken engagements to better understand how the partner with less power recovers themself from the emotional, financial, social, and embodied experience of becoming an ex-fiancée.