Anyone have any interesting ways of avoiding the inevitable tears, door-slamming, and five-hour Dr. Phil-style conversations going nowhere? No, I don’t need answer fast.
The best one I saw was in college even though I was the target - I was in denial about some girl cutting off communication and wrote a few earnest/pathetic letters to her until she answered “Keep sending me these letters. I love getting them, they are so funny”. That made the point in such a clever way that I couldn’t even be mad.
A favorite way of guys I knew in college was to start sleeping with her friend and let her find out. Then she’d dump you, but you were stuck with her friend.
I can’t say I found the approach courageous or ethical
Trust me, in the past I’ve always taken the straight-honesty approach leading to maximum drama whether I wanted to or not. Hope to never be in that position again, but some people out there apparently know how to be really smooth about it.
Clever ways? Nope. How about just being honest?
It goes something like this: “I can no longer go out with you because _____.”
As far as the: “inevitable tears, door-slamming, and five-hour Dr. Phil-style conversations going nowhere” I don’t know what to tell you. Not all break-ups have to end like that.
Shit in his/her bed at the moment of climax. When they shriek ''You shit in the bed when you came!" – look genuinely puzzled and say “Doesn’t everybody?” Worked for me.
This is why all the folks who do stuff online just go dead silent. When your texts and calls don’t get returned, consider yourself dumped. It avoids lots of whining & pleading.
Seems pretty uncivilized to me, but we have threads and threads on this.
Hope to never be in that position again, but some people out there apparently know how to be really smooth about it.