Breaking up just got easier - dump your lover by voicemail
- added July 23, 2008
- 16 responses
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- sgirgis72
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THAT'S AWFUL! WHERE'S the humanity???
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Nah, this is the natural next step. You meet online, have your relationship through email, text and IM, enjoy some virtual sex, get married in Second Life and then break up via voicemail.
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- mischabarrett
- 1 month ago
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I think that's brilliant! Especially for business. There are so many time-suckers out there who simply won't let you get off the phone. Noooo they want to have a 45 min discussion and get side-tracked and bring up other issues unrelated to their question. How handy it would be to just call them back, leave a message on their vmx saying "Yes. It will ship Thursday." and then just get on with your life?
As for the impersonalness of breaking up with someone via voice mail, well, is it really such a bad thing? If the relationship is over....then what is really to be gained by engaging in a long, drawn out teary conversation with someone screaming, "Why!?! How could you do this to me!?! Aaaarrrggghhh!"
Yeah. I can see the value is just skipping all of that and going straight to voicemail. -
LOL...I would SO use this!! Well, unless it was a serious relationship or something...*cringe*
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crob, unfortunately when dealing with a human being you've been dating, there are emotions involved. Regardless of the service, breaking up with someone over a text, voicemail, or e-mail is just cowardly. Most of the time anyway, I'm sure there are exceptions.
But this slydial service I think can be helpful in a lot of ways. I can see using it to call my mom. -
Well, I was mostly kidding VSiskos, but you did make the observation that such a service is "cowardly."
I think that's interesting. That's certainly the traditional belief.
But how exactly is it a "noble" thing to stand around while someone else sobs?
Let's say you've dated someone for, oh, six months or so. You realize you're not as "into" that person as they are "into" you. It happens.
Now you know this other person is very emotional and it's going to be a looooong drawn out ordeal as they gnash their teeth, plead for an explination, demand a complete accounting of all their flaws, vent their anger that you "fooled them" for so long.....and on and on.
Yes it's a nice thing to be their therapist/emotional punching bag for the hour (or more) it takes them to deal with the news.....but can we really call it noble? Does avoiding that particular meltdown really fall into the category of cowardice?
Now I'm assuming that this service exists exclusively for casual relationships and clearly if some guy (or girl) wants to end a serious marriage with kids and a mortgage via a txt msg or voice mail, yes, that is clearly inappropriate.
But for a casual relationship? Even a semi-serious one that really hasn't lasted that long....I think that an arguement could be made that this isn't such a bad thing.
I'm sure there are a lot of relationships limping on year after year soley because one party can't face the dreaded "confrontation" of a breakup.
We may dismiss this service as nothing but a tool to be used by insenstive assholes (such as myself), but in reality it could be invaluable to any number of people who fear emotional confrontation. And that is what breakups are, aren't they? Unlike submiting a resignation letter to your employer who will recieve it with a somewhat neutral stance....breakups are much more confrontational.
And if this tool allows (casual) relationships to be terminated without conflict how could that be a bad thing? If it enables a small percentage of people a method to end relationships they otherwise wouldn't have the emotional strength to do face-to-face, is that really bad or cowardly? -
How about a compromise?
True, a voice mail message may be too impersonal for a breakup....but what about a YouTube video?
A carefully scripted and heartfelt message of "Thanks, but no thanks" edited with some soft music playing in the background....and emailed to your former-significant other from an undisclosed location. -
i can see myself using this service to avoid certain akward situations, but to breakup, i dont think so.
I guess beaking up i need the sense of closure, wich i wouldnt get this way. Beside, i dont want anyone use it on me! and i have this rule to not do anything to other people what i wouldnt like to be done to me. -
Grow up people. If you don't have the decency to tell someone in person then seek therapy because you shouldn't be dating.
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- alexhansen
- 1 month ago
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I think in a lot of situations, unless I had been dating the dude for a while, like over 3 months, I'd rather be dumped via email/voicemail/test msg or something. I hate drama, and quick, painless, and impersonal is the way to go for me. (= Better than what I usually do...ignore them til they just go away!
But yeah, if there are serious emotions involved on either side, this would be pretty disrespectful and hurtful. -
In the end, when it's over, it's over. One person will be so far past the doomed relationship, while the other will be left looking for answers that will never come. Ultimately, both parties just have to walk on, regardless of the medium that served the "Dear John" letter.
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- arcticspirit
- 30 days ago
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