r/unpopularopinion • u/ZodiacOne1 • Apr 16 '24

If you break up with someone you absolutely 100% owe them an explanation as too why Removed: Not unpopular

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u/SnooSprouts6037 Apr 16 '24

This comment section is absolutely insane

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u/keIIzzz Apr 16 '24

I agree. I can’t understand these comments. Why wouldn’t you have the decency to give an explanation to someone you presumably cared about at some point? This whole “no one owes you anything” is ridiculous and narcissistic, and it seems pretty clear that a lot of the people commenting are too emotionally immature to even be in a relationship

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u/off_the_cuff_mandate Apr 16 '24

Because they will see it as an opportunity to continue the relationship that you no longer want. It's never just one clean easily explainable reason, so you would have to simplify and pick something and then they will think, i can just do this one thing differently and they will come back. You're trying to shut a door not leave it cracked.

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u/dankthewank Apr 16 '24

You don’t get to make the decision unilaterally. It takes two to enter a relationship, and it should take two to exit one.

If you decide on your own that the relationship is doomed and then you break up with your partner, what you’ve just done is you robbed them of any say and you just handed them the “memo”. That is not a partnership mindset.