What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?
What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#0
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:23amOkay, so I've been with this guy for about 2 3/4 years now, and I really want to break up with him. We broke up last December nad got back together but now I realize that this relationship is really unhealthy for both of us. He's pretty much obsessed with me, he won't leave me alone and he's ten times more emotional than I am (I know every woman says she wants a sensitive guy but trust me, you don't. Your boyfriend should not be more of a girl than you.) So I need to figure out how to break up with him and make it final. Should I do it over the phone? In person? What should I say? Anyone have any tips?
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#1
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:25amI think that over the phone or an email is the cowardly way of doing it...it MUST be done in person.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#2
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:26am
Send him a link to this thread?
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#5
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:28amLeave the country, change your identity and fingerprints.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#6
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:29amI think one of those planes with a banner attached to its end would be very classy!
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#7
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:30am
The best way to break up with me...I mean him, is to just ignore me...I mean him! HIM!...until I get the hint.
I mean until he gets the hint.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#8
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:30am
Anyone remember how it happens in EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED? I remember it had to do with a letter.
"I had to do it for myself," I think is what the woman wrote.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#9
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:31amLike Boobs says, it has to be done in person.In the long run, you'll feel better about it as well.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#10
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:31am
The only reason I'm hesitating to do it in person is this: I know he's going to freak out, start crying a lot, and probably just hang onto me for a long time and I don't think I can deal with that. I'm scared to break up with him because I'm worried that he's not going to leave me alone. I mean, I don't think he's necessarily capable of stalking, but I'm not sure. I'm his entire life. He doesn't have any other real friends or anything, and I'm just worried for him.
On a lighter note, I do have a friend who broke up with a guy with a Post-It. But they were only dating for, like, a month anyway.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#11
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:36am
When I was living in CA, I went to this party where the host made everyone sign this book. (He's big on mementos.) I wrote "I'm Austin and I'm gonna break up with my boyfriend tonight."
I was also really drunk. Nathan (Y'all remember him, right?) read it before I got a chance to tell him.
Oops.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#12
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:38amI can think of about 50 ways, I think...
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#13
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:44amShannon Doherty
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#14
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:45am
Who else watches How I met Your Mother?!? Did you see the episode where Ted breaks up with his girlfriend on her answering machine ... on her birthday ... with an apartment full of people waiting to surprise her?!?
Hysterical!
But not a good way to do it ...
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#15
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:47amIf we're going to use people, you might as well pick someone that's worth it.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#16
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:47am
Maybe...I could make him a really big chocolate chip cookie...and then write on it with frosting "It's Not You, It's Me. I Think It's Time We Part Ways."
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#17
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:48amBway, have you been talking to...uh...every guy I've ever dated?
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#18
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:49am
What happen to the good ole days where just telling someone you were pregnant made the feller run
Kidding of course
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#19
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:52am
Sad thing is that that probably wouldn't work. He'd probably get all emotional and be like "We're having a baby? I must marry you and commit to you for all time!"
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#20
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:54amI just give them crabs and blame them for cheating...it's very dramatic.
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#21
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:55amthat was you, doodle? i didn't even know we had dated.
PED
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#22
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:55am
He'd probably get all emotional and be like "We're having a baby? I must marry you and commit to you for all time!"
Wow. What a jerk he is.
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#23
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:56am
"the post it always sticks twice"
Unhealthy relationship or not, you've been together a long time..... have the decency to do it face to face. (okay that totally came out wrong) If he gets nasty or violent, dont hesitate to kick him where it hurts
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
re: What's The Best Way To Break Up With Someone?#24
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:56amDo it in person, in public and not at a place you ever want to go again. In other words, pick a crappy restaurant, not one of your favorites because it will ruin the place for you. Do not let him pick you up, arrive separately. In public because there is little chance of him freaking out too much or talking you into break-up sex. And leave there without him. Do not let him offer you a ride home...and go somewhere for a while where he can't find you. A friend's house or even a hotel for the night. Oh, and change your phone number before you meet with him. Oh, and mean it.
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