How to dump your lover
When a relationship has run its course, parting is the next best step. Sometimes this can be a mutually agreed decision, once both parties are on the same page and realise that there is no denying the inevitable. But sometimes things drag on, for whatever reason.
If you were in a relationship that you wanted out of, what would you do? Would you be honest, ‘fess up and part ways, or would you drop hints and start acting the fool, hoping the other party would put things on the chopping block first?
Michelle, 39:
I would first have a conversation with myself and then I would have a face-to-face conversation with the other person. I would just tell them like it is. We would talk about it and have some kind of mutual agreement. Hopefully at the end of it all we could still be friends.
Andrew, 28:
Jah know star, I would just up and leave, especially if I have a next catty a wait pon mi.
Richard, 30:
If I have some future plans in the pipeline and she is not a part of the plans then I would up and leave her. I would migrate without telling her. I would just disappear.
Eric, 34:
I would first move out to ensure that she doesn’t set fire to any of my belongings. Then I would tell her that I want out — from a distance of course! I don’t want her to chop mi in my head. My girlfriend is a mad woman. Women tend not to want to give up on a relationship so easily and so I wouldn’t want to make the crazy mistake of dropping her just so. I may live to regret it or not live at all.
James, 31:
I would give her subtle hints. I would gradually reduce my interactions with her especially if she is becoming toxic. I would start omitting relationship-type stuff from the conversation. I would just talk to her as a friend. I would talk to her less and less; I would see her less and less. I would play mind games, essentially.
Tyrone, 27:
Simple — WhatsApp. Send her a message and then unfriend her on Facebook. A dat a gwaan inna John shop.
Renee, 26:
I would give him some loving before, and then tell him I want out. I would have to give him something to remember me by so that he knows what it is that he would be missing out on, and just so he’d know that the next girl he has would never be as good as me.
Keith, 32:
I would do the opposite of everything I used to do. I would start the lying, cheating — everything I could to intentionally irritate her. I would even go as far as to let her see me with another woman.
Clive, 37:
I would stop dealing with her entirely. I would make the matey call her and tell her that it’s over.
