Today, in an attempt to break up with my boyfriend, I told him, "I don't feel a mental connection between us." His reply? "Why do we need a mental connection?" FML
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Today, I had a mental breakdown. Many things have been going completely wrong in my life, and I finally decided to let my boyfriend know about it. After about an hour of explaining and pouring my heart out, his response was, "I think we were better off as friends." FML
Today, I told my boyfriend, "We need to talk." He said, "I know". So we met after school, and he said he was OK with me breaking up with him, that he wasn't that into me either. He said all that before I could tell him that my parents wanted to meet him. FML
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Incredidanny 5
Let him know you don't need a physical connection.
maskedman 9
Maybe you can just outsmart him and trick him into breaking up with you. He seems pretty dumb.
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Comments (65)
trellz17 19
Has he graduated middle school yet?
deathtothepix 26
Could just cut the bull and say how you really feel. I hate it when people come up with 'creative' excuses, so wimpy. He sounds like he's trying to clutch onto your relationship let him down properly.
chanellgymnast 17
Tell him that you also don't need a physical connection with him.
fleur_de_fevrier_fml 22
I'd say YDI. Instead of speaking in riddles, be mature about it and tell him directly that this is not working out and that you don't have (any more?) feelings for him.
kittycat2007 18
Step up to the plate and actually tell him its over. Don't hint, suggest or "attempt" at/to breaking up, actually do it. Its cruel to keep him around when you know the relationship is over.
Epikouros 31
Are you Betazoid or Vulcan?
Zen_Mei 17
I'm sorry but a mental connection? Really?
graphicstyle7 17
Yeah... um, that's kind of what romance is about in many ways. Finding the one person who understands you, so, yeah, mental connection. Scares me a bit that you don't get that.
Zen_Mei 17
Nope still don't get it...unless you want some sort of telepathic communication...
xStaciexLynnx 15
I'm an intelligent person but I think if someone said to me 'We don't have a mental connection' I'd be confused too. I can understand emotional or physical connections but saying there's no mental connection is just odd. I mean, are we talking mental telepathy or what? Say what you really mean.
Zen_Mei 17
My thoughts exactly!
X_Codes 11
Mental connection!
jelly713 19
Maybe she meant intellectual. That's a form of mental connection, more do-able than telepathy. She couldn't connect with him in that intellectual level that she's in. I get it some people prefer people who understand why they think a certain way & relate to intellectual conversations.
RedPillSucks 31
I thought she was telling him directly how she felt. She needs more than a physical connection, she needs a mental connection. She was saying this in the process of breaking up with him. There's nothing wrong with explaining her reasoning. Just saying "I'm breaking up with you" and leaving it at that makes her seem like a jerk, then we would be reading the BF FML: "Today, my GF broke up with me for no reason". EDIT: this comment was meant for #21, but could go here also, I guess...
jiraii 9
obviously you two are looking for different things in a relationship