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What not to do during a breakup in English.

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Today is Valentine's Day, but what if a friend is going through a breakup? Today get four phrases to avoid and find out why.

Lindsay, happy Valentine's Day.

Yeah, Jessica, it is, I know, I can't believe, you know, I'm actually going to be, right now I'm, I should be in Cambodia at this moment,

so I might even not realize that it's Valentine's Day but yes

happy Valentine's Day. Well it's not Valentine's Day there so I mean you'll just

give it a miss and I'll probably give it a miss to be honest with you I didn't really do much for Valentine's Day anymore

But nevertheless we have

experienced a lot of Valentine's days. I've had 39 at this point and some good, some bad, right? I think you and

Michelle talked about the good side yesterday, right? Yeah, I think yesterday Michelle and I talked about talking about how to express your love for your partner and phrases that you can steal from movies, but today we're going to take the other side of the coin.

Yeah. Right, we're going to take the other side of the coin and

Jessica, have you ever gone through a bad breakup and not only are you going

through the breakup but you get the worst advice and feedback from friends

when all you really need is just chocolate ice cream from the advice and like really massively bad break-ups, right? Everybody has, I mean, come on.

And there's always like certain friends

who I will talk to and smell my guts and cry

and say anything, because I know that they're just going to be a

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