Joel Cureton's Advice: How to break it off

By Joel Cureton 
Staff Writer

There are many ways to break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend.

You could say it nicely or you could say it in a forceful way. It's hard to know if you're doing it the right way, though. But what if you do it the wrong way?

 Well, you all are lucky, because I'm going to tell you the best way to break up with a boyfriend or a girlfriend.

One way that can always work for you is the direct approach. Just going straight to them and telling them that it's just not going to work out, and then you just leave. That can be just fine, but be careful, because there may be a few problems with that method.

Number one is that it's just so vague. You're just saying, "I want to break up" and then walking away, not giving that person any clue toward why you want to break up. Another problem with this one would be that it's honest, but yet it's just too direct. They could be more hurt with the direct approach. Even though that may be very difficult to do without hurting feelings, it just has to be done.

There are other ways of breaking up with your man or girl, but I don't recommend them.

One of them is the mobile way. The mobile way is where you use your cell phone to send them a text saying that you want to break up. I can name many reasons why that's just terrible, but for now I'll just stick with the two main reasons. The first one is that its shows lack of manners, consideration and character. Second of all, it's just rude. I mean really, didn't your mama teach you not to break up with people through a cell phone? I know mine did. It can make the person that you're breaking up with feel like the relationship meant so little that you only felt the need to text them.

 One other thing never to do is to get someone else to break up with the person for you. There are just so many problems with that. One of them is that you're making it seem like the relationship didn't matter enough to you to tell them face to face. It's basically sending the message that this whole relationship never mattered. It just not smart at all.

So these are the ways you can break up with your boyfriend or girlfriend, but I recommend doing it in person.