DU Lounge Break-up/Dumping Modality Poll

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Poll question: DU Lounge Break-up/Dumping Modality Poll

I have broken up, dumped or been dumped via the following modality(s):

This thread was prompted by a discussion I was reading on another forum, where it became clear to me that people being dumped via text messages and such is increasingly common among the younger folk, which doesn't really surprise me.

Thank GOD I'm not out in the dating arena any more. :woohoo:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Oh and I should have included:

-Walked in on a "situation"
-Received invitation to their wedding (to someone else) in the mail

[Wapsie B]

2. Never dumped or have been dumped by texting.

I have been dumped by phone and snail-mail though. Just a generational thing I guess. I know it hurts at the time but to think that if someone would be that impersonal about it to leave it to a text message to say it's over only tells me there wasn't much there in the first place.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Hmmm forgot snail mail option LOL

[Wapsie B]

4. Yeah that was the old standby for years.

lol

[JVS]

5. Strip-o-gram would be cool

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. I broke up with my first boyfriend by telephone.

However, there were extenuating circumstances that prevented me from doing it in person. First, he lived an hour away; second, I had no transportation; and third, I had to do it right then or I would have lost my nerve. I really hated doing it by phone, but I had to act. The bullshit had been going on for far too long, and it had to stop right then.

I had dated a guy briefly after breaking up with my ex, and I broke it off in person. After three dates, it was going absolutely nowhere. With other guys I dated, it just sort of ended. :)

[crim son]

7. Email here.

If I tried to respond, he'd block me. No doubt I'm still blocked so as to avoid any unpleasant complications of his being a lying fuck of unimaginable proportions. In two days it will be the eleven month anniversary of being dumped and I am still freaked out. Sort of think I will always be.

[Crazy Dave]

8. I put a restraining order on the psycho bitch....

...and she finally got the message.

[mainegreen]

9. Always do it in person.

You come off as less of a shit-head that way. One should have enough moxie to face the person, say "I'm through with 'us'" and take the verbal assault to come. It's not fun, but generally it's the right thing to do, and you take less of a hit in the social points category than others ways. It makes a *whistle* clean break for you and at least gives the other person that chance to yell at you they really deserve (unless it's a mutual break up which by far are the best kind).