When it comes to breaking-up with someone, there are always clichés bounding about however hard we try to make the reasons sound genuine. There is a guaranteed chat 
around the same subject – namely why you do or don’t want to be together – and the same lines appear to be trotted out again and again. Here are our top 10 break-up clichés decoded just for you.
“I love you but I’m not in love with you.”
Translation: “I no longer fancy you – or want to sleep with you. Please don’t cry.”
“It’s not you, it’s me.”
Translation: “It’s definitely you, not me. I know you want to date me but I don’t want to date you. Please don’t cry.”
“I’m not ready for a relationship right now.”
Translation: “I want to have sex with other people – not you. I’m gonna hit the dating scene and then maybe beg for you back in a few weeks only for us to split again.”
“You want more than I’m prepared to give.”
Translation: “You want more than I’m prepared to give… you.”
“I’d love to stay friends.”
Translation: “I really don’t want to have sex with you – or speak to you ever again. Maybe I will wish you Happy Birthday via Facebook once a year.”
“I need to focus on my career.”
Translation: “My boring desk job is more exciting than you.”
“I think we are moving too fast.”
Translation: “I am freaked out by your five voicemails, 17 tweets and four Facebook messages. Please stop stalking me.”
“I’m not emotionally available right now.”
Translation: “The sex is fine but everything else is not. I’m trying to pretend I have an emotional availability disorder.”
“We need to talk”
Translation: “I really don’t want to talk. I just want you to realise quickly that I want to dump you.”
“You’re not the person I fell in love with”
Translation: “You’re exactly the same but I just don’t fancy you any more.”
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