If you care about someone you’ve dated, even just a little bit, you won’t break up over email. Or worse, text! (Post-its are sooo last decade). Without the exchange that is only possible with an actual conversation, the dumpee could spend weeks, months, or more trying to figure out what they did wrong, and how it is that they suck so badly that they don’t even deserve a face to face or telephone discussion about why you’re moving on. They may read your brief excuse over and over and over trying to figure out what really happened. At least you could give them closure. You know, so they can understand the problem, maybe correct their behavior, and not have the sting of your ice-cold move impact every relationship moving forward. A digital dump just creates more people out there in the dating world who are afraid to open up. And isn’t that the root of most relationship problems? We can’t communicate our needs, feelings, desires, frustrations, or allow ourselves to get close? By hiding behind a brief note (L8TR… NOT!), you’ve just moved both parties (dumper and dumped) backwards. So saddle up, do the hard work that relationships require, and give your not-so-special someone the courtesy of a good ole fashioned break-up. You’ll both feel better in the end, and maybe even learn a lesson or two in the process about what it takes to make a relationship work. Um, like, talking?!
Digital Dumping is for D-Bags
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I know this stuff just *gushed* out of you, but… paragraph breaks are your friends. They’re friends to all of us.
Amen, Todd … or fake it so thstreamofconsciousnessthing is less annoying. (Russian cat circus. That’s #2 for the day.)
Closure? I think you got that when you were rid of someone who doesnt even have enough integrity to dump you to your face
Maybe you should ask yourself why you date idiots.
Maybe you should ask yourself why are you still here.
This person DOES need to break up his/her paragraphs, though.
Yet here you are, digitally complaining about the digital dump. If you were dating, you must know where the offender works/ lives/ hangs out. See where I’m going with this?
iceprez comes through with true wisdom on this one. Go find someone that cares enough that, even if it doesn’t work out, will break it off with some class.
Oh, pardon me, I misread. It must be my “Intercontinental Language Barrier”. Instead of this hypothetical “relationship” to: “(…) learn a lesson or two in the process about what it takes to make a relationship work. Um, like, talking?!” – I read: “to make a relationship work. Um, like, STALKING?!”. You know, my reading habits.