The worst ways to be broken up with: From having a big forehead to being 'too perfect'
"The hospital I had been admitted to was too far away from him to drive to"
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Your support makes all the difference.Breaking up is complicated – and a new Reddit thread has laid bare some of the worst explanations people have been given at the end of their relationships.
Users of the website, which dubs itself the front page of the internet, were invited to answer the question: “What's the worst reason someone has broken up with you over?”
“Worst as in stupid reason or terrible act that was done,” the post clarified.
The questions sparked some 200 comments. Jaw-dropping reasons revealed on the Ask Reddit thread ranged from cruel jibes about the person’s appearance to frustrations over who pays for lunch.
Politics, kissing skills, and problems with possessive partners were also mentioned in the eye-oping thread.
The comment which received the most points from Reddit users told of how a US high school student had sex with an older pupil who later told him she was just testing his morals.
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Reddit users aren't alone in trying to pin down the best way to break up with a partner. A study in the Journal of Research in Personality assessed the methods that people use to end a relationship, and found seven common approaches.
These included: avoiding the person; blaming yourself to appease your partner; openly confroting them, and picking fights to drive the person away. Telling mutual friends you are unhappy to spread anxiety about your relationship, using distant communcations like a text; and pretending to want a break were also featured, The Telegraph reported.
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