How NOT to break up with someone

Sarah and Vinnie Full Show

Audacy

Comedy

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

There's no good way to break up with someone, but these methods are particularly bad

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0:00.0	All right.
0:00.4	Hello.
0:00.7	Listen, think about this.
0:01.8	You're waking up with Sarah and Vinny.
0:03.3	I love it.
0:04.0	Alice at 973.
0:06.8	Anyway, I'm going to begin with this story about breakups.
0:11.2	They were in the news and the trash, and so I thought, all right, here they are.
0:14.4	A study found there are three main breakup strategies we use.
0:18.6	The most popular is some variation of it's not you, it's me. Yes, done that many
0:26.3	times. Now, when you say that, you don't say that exactly what you're trying to say is,
0:32.6	trying to say, uh, I'm, it's, it's, it's an excuse. It's a lie. I've lie I've just got so many things going on in my life and
0:40.4	you know it's it's not you you're great but I it's just not a right time for me the most popular
0:48.1	approach is soften the blow which that's what they're calling that used by like 86% of people surveyed.
0:57.8	The method, this method combined acts like explaining the reason for the breakup,
1:03.5	accepting some or all of the blame and trying to convince the partner that
1:07.6	separating would be best for both of us.
1:11.1	The second approach is, let's take a break.
1:14.5	Yeah, that's always, like, a break means breaking out.
1:17.4	It's a temporary separation, allowing both parties to assess their feelings and decide if
1:23.0	this relationship is worth going forward.
1:26.6	And then the last one is full on ghosting.
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