Face to Face(book)
Online breakup may not be very sensitive, but it works
Dear Carolyn,
I know you are going to give me a hard time about this. I needed to break up with my girlfriend but didn’t have any home time scheduled. Every time I had an opportunity to get a load home, she was out of town. Finally, I just couldn’t take it anymore, and I broke up with her via Facebook. I changed my status to “single,” and before I could even explain, she heard about it.
I could have written a long email with all the reasons I wanted to end it or called her on the phone and listened to her cry. This way, she can hate me and all her friends can mock me and I can be the poster child for Men Behaving Badly.
The reason I’m writing is so that when she writes to you about it, you’ll already know what a jerk I am.
