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'Is It Hot In Here Or Is This Relationship Suffocating?' And 4 Other Terrible Ways To Break-Up With Someone

Here's what not to do

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Let's face it. Break-ups are not fun, let alone comfortable. There is no easy way to break-up with someone. There is no perfected script to follow. However, there is a right way and wrong way to break-up with someone. Below you will find 5 examples of what not to do when you go about breaking up with someone - you know so you can get all of the bad ideas out of your system.

1. Send them the link to 'Final Countdown' by Europe

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Sometimes when it comes to breakups, the breakup may come out of the blue. You're in this season of rose-colored glasses, and then all of a sudden you have a realization of either a red flag, or what you truly want, and so on. In this time, you may want to prepare your soon to be ex-partner for the news. However, this is NOT how to do it. DO NOT send them the link to this song four minutes and fifty-six seconds before you have the conversation with them.

2. Sitting at Thanksgiving dinner with your soon to be ex and telling your family your thankful for your break-up

Sometimes you do not want to do the breaking up on your own or at least by yourself, being around close family or friends to help support you through the difficult time sounds ideal. And let's face it, sometimes your mom does know exactly what to say when delivering bad news. However, family Thanksgiving is not the place to break up with someone.

3. Having your mom call them and break-up for you

As mentioned before, moms are experts at knowing exactly how to be a bearer of bad news in the best way possible. Though this definitely takes the pressure off of you to actually do the breaking up; however, this is a low blow. Especially if you're over the age of twenty.

4. Sending them the link to 'Bye Bye Bye' by NSYNC and then blocking them on everything and never talking to them again

As savage as this may be, please be a decent human being and do not do this. Though you will never have to actually do the breaking up or ever talk to them again, this is not a good idea. If the conversation goes south, maybe you can send this to them after the fact.

5. Ask them if it is hot in here or if the relationship is suffocating you

When breaking up with someone you don't want to fully destroy them. You need to accept that they are human too, so please go about it kindly. Break-ups aren't about who had the best zinger.

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