The Worst and Best Ways to Tell Someone It’s Over

Breaking up will always be something of a mess, but that s not to overlook the far better or distinctively worse ways we might do it. One of the nicest moves is to stop trying to be nice and to concentrate instead on the key ingredients of the good break up: directness, explanation, clarity and a lack of ambiguity. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: https://bit.ly/2LayJ9F For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://bit.ly/2wVN0CI Our website has classes, articles and products to help you think and grow: https://bit.ly/2MYamSy 2MgaF5Q FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://bit.ly/2CAlCiZ “The intensity and suffering exacted by a heartbreak depends not only on the core fact that we’ve been left; it also decisively depends on how we’ve been left. Our hurt can be hugely intensified when we’ve been left badly – just as it may be rendered a great deal more bearable when we are fortunate enough to have landed on a lover who has learnt the psychologically-rich art of mature break-ups.” MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE Visit us in person at our London HQ: https://bit.ly/2wZRSG6 Watch more films on RELATIONSHIPS in our playlist: http://bit.ly/TSOLrelationships You can submit translations and transcripts on all of our videos here: https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_panel?c=UC7IcJI8PUf5Z3zKxnZvTBog&tab=2 Find out how more here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6054623?hl=en-GB SOCIAL MEDIA Feel free to follow us at the links below: 2MgaF5Q Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theschooloflifelondon/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSchoolOfLife Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theschooloflifelondon/ CREDITS Produced in collaboration with: Seed Sustainable Design studio https://creativeseed.co.za/ #TheSchoolofLife #HowToBreakUp #Relationships