Ending a relationship is painful, especially so when you’re still in love with them.

It’s confusing and tricky and you never really know what to say or how your soon-to-be-ex is going to react.

There’s one thing you need to understand before you break up with someone you love, and that’s never to end a relationship like a coward.

How to break up with someone

Let’s face it, it’s really easy to ignore a lover for a few days until they get pissed, call you up and yell at you.

And then you give your lover a ridiculously lame excuse and wait for them to say they can’t take this relationship anymore.

And then you grin a sigh of bitter relief because you could avoid the confrontation.

There’s another easier way too, and this is actually the most common way to break up.

You purposely bring up a touchy subject while you’re on the phone, and wait for your partner to lose their lid.

And somewhere in the conversation, you fake genuine enlightenment and tell you partner that this can’t go on, because both of you are so different.

And that’s another cowardly way to break up.

Now both these ways of breaking up are foolproof and you can definitely use it too. The best part of ending a relationship this way is that you don’t really need to confront your lover or even initiate the breakup conversation.