The best way to deal with this is to buy one of the Apple micro USB to lightning adapters. That way, when you break it, all you need to get is another micro USB cable and swap the adapter.
Incidentally, treat these cables properly and they don't break. Don't pull them from the wire, grab the actual connector and they're fine. In all the years I've had Apple products, I've never broken one cable, be it dock or lightning.
I got one of the adapters for my autistic son because he kept breaking cables. He still breaks them (doesn't understand about unplugging by grabbing the connector) but now I just sigh and grab another micro USB cable from the drawer.