Healthy Suggestions For Breaking Up

Breaking up with someone you care about is...

• Super easy

• Not painful if you do it quickly

• Only painful for one person

• Painful for both people

You've been with your partner for several months and things used to be great. But you no longer see a future together and want to end things. It's best done by...

• Arranging a face-to-face meeting

• Ghosting the person (not replying or seeing them)

• WeChat message and sad face emoji

• Going on a date with someone else and sharing it to social media

I want to tell the person I'm breaking up with the reason, so I decide to tell them...

• "It's not you, it's me"

• "I don't think we are compatible anymore"

• "You are a horrible kisser and bad in bed"

• All the annoying habits they have

After a lot of deliberation and thoughtful consideration. You decide that breaking up is what you want to do. The person that you are breaking up with is surprised and shocked, and then...

• They plead with you to forgive them for their mistakes and you take them back

• They tell you that they will change and you should give them another chance. You say ok

• They are hurt and want you to reconsider. But you have thought clearly about this and stick to your decision to break up

• They cry and seem devastated. So you feel guilty and take them back

After telling the person that you have thought carefully about your decision and you want to break up. Then you...

• Smile and say "It was nice knowing you"

• Bring up all the arguments that you had and how unhappy you were.

• Express how it was such a waste of time and wish you had never gotten together in the first place

• Express sadness at the breakup and share some good things about your time together

You had once had a healthy relationship, but it is no longer what you are looking for.

While discussing the decision to breakup, you...

• Explain all of their annoying character traits and their opinions that you disagreed with

• Tell the person how evil and unkind they were

• Shame them for not having enough exciting interests or cool hobbies

• Explain that some of your values or character traits did not align

In the time following the breakup, you should...

• Burn any gifts from that person and delete all of their photos from your phone

• Surround yourself with the people you love, do the things that make you happy, and understand that it's okay to feel sadness

• Tell all of your mutual friends how annoying and unattractive that person was

• Block yourself off from socializing, quit your hobbies and cry yourself to sleep each night

Do you agree with these suggestions for breaking up with someone you care about?

• I DISAGREE with ALL of the suggestions

• I agree with SOME of the suggestions

• I agree with MOST of the suggestions

• I agree with ALL of the suggestions