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These are just some of the break-up lines that have been sent in to SBYD. The more recent always get added to the top. Having received nearly three hundred lines in total, not all of the lines that have been submitted are here. I shuffle them about. If you want to add your line - please email it to lines @ sybd (Please note: remove the DELETE off the end of the email address before sending)

New for 2008!

NEW! "You are the only really good girl I've ever met, I will probably never meet anyone like you again. You are really marriage material. If we stay together, we will get married in a few years, BUT I'm not sure I am ready to commit to one person."

NEW! "I just can't handle the distance...I'm so sorry."

NEW! "This isn't easy and neither are you...I'm breaking up with you"

NEW! "I could have easily have married you....maybe if we're still single in five years..."

NEW! "Please understand that I care for you deeply, but need to finalize my thoughts with her good or bad - for my sake. But I would still like to take you to lunch and call you if that is ok with you. I just can't see you right now."

" I am having a disruption in my professional life (leaving job) so I thought that I may as well have a disruption in my personal life. My "friend" has asked me to move in with her and I've agreed, is it alright if I move out on Saturday?"

"My dick is committed to you but my heart is not."

"I just don't know how much longer I can do this charade that I am happy with the relationship as it is."

"Sorry I stopped contacting you. I had to go back to rehab”

"I'd like to think that I just need some time, because I really miss you, but really I never loved you and I miss everyone else".

"Please understand that I care for you deeply, but need to finalize my thoughts with her good or bad - for my sake. But i would still like to take you to lunch and call you if that is ok with you."

"Maybe I just need to date someone who will let me look at porn."

"I'd like to think that I just need some time, because I really miss you, but really I never loved you and I miss everyone else"

"I love you. I love hanging out with you. You are so easy to live with. I want everything to remain the same except the boyfriend/girlfriend thing."

"You're an investment with no return."

"I know that if I continue seeing you that you that I will want to spend the rest of my life with but I am not ready for that so I don't want to see you anymore."

"Yes, I thought we were getting to the point in our relationship where I might start to fall in love with you but your insecurities about how I feel about you have made it clear that I can never fall in love with you."

"You're a great guy, but I have so much baggage, and right now I have more bad days than good days...it wouldn't be fair to subject you to that."

“I still care about you, but I just don't find my heart jumping out of my chest when I see you anymore.”

"I have lost all romantic feelings for you completely, and I desire no future relationship with you."

"Dating you is killing who I am."

"She's exactly like you used to be - before you became a bitch."

“I think you love me more than I love you."

"Bad news, I met someone last night, and as I neither want to cheat on you nor bull**** you, we should keep seeing us as 'friends' only,...if it is ok for you?"

"I'm looking for a long-term relationship and I just can't pursue that with you."

"I think we both rushed into this relationship so fast but forgot to get to know each other. We should have taken our time. You can't fall in love in two months but we were so keen to try.'

"We both have some of the qualities we want, but not all of them. I want nothing or easier."

"I really feel that we have major differences...I like playing the accordian, and growing pot...you don't."

"The longer we are together, the less serious I am about you."

"We've both grown up and changed, I love you, but that kind of love has changed, and it's not the kind you want from me. I want us to be closest friends instead."

"I feel like I'm changing, and though I do love you and I really like spending time with you, I'm not as 'in love' with you anymore.."

"I don't think you have it in you to be a good mother. When I thought about marrying you, I only thought about whether you'd make a good wife...I didn't think about whether you'd make a good mother too."

"I don't want the responsability of someone else's happiness."

"I'll treasure all the things that happened between us, and I must say it was beautiful, but it was just a fairy tale."

"I'm really sorry to have messed you about, but being with you has made me realise that I am gay and I can't string you along anymore."

"I feel alive when I am with her but I am very grateful to you."

"If you were about to say that you just wanted fun and no labels, I'd want to continue. But I think you want more."

"You just know me too well, and that freaks me out. You know what I am going to do before I do it, so I can't do anything."

"I have no empathy for you just contempt and I think about suicide rather than staying with you."

"Dress quick, or you're leaving in your night dress."

"Really, it's not you, I'm just going through a selfish phase..."

"I must have been on drugs the day I asked you out."

"We don't make each other happy, is that what you want to hear?"

"We're not stable enough for a dog. I need to find someone else."

"I feel like this break up has made our relationship so much stronger."

“I would rather live in my car and be a drug addict than spend another moment with you.” 

"I really like you, you're a lovely woman and we have great fun  - you're just not a long-term prospect."

"You're just the first to go so I can have more time to do my art. The second will be my job."

"Sorry, You're not the one".

"Maybe we have too much in common.  We are too much alike."

"I don't want you to feel like I'm breaking up with you. I just can't be in a relationship with you anymore."

"I know it took me two years to finally get you out on a date, but now I'm feeling tied down..."

"I just cant live with the pathetic tickles that you call 'sexual thrusts' anymore"

"I undoubtedly did love you, but those feelings got worn down over time with the way our relationship went. I don't blame you at all for what happened, but think it was one of those things where we drifted apart for all sorts of reasons, including your illness, and the pressure of supporting you through various crisises."

"I can't be with you because you are graduating and I never went to college."

"I'm leaving. Do you want me to go tonight or tomorrow?"

"Life is too short to make mistakes."

"Music is just more important to me than you are. But I love you so, so much as a friend."

"Yes, I love you, but I really, really hate you too."

"We have to many music differences. I really like the new Radiohead stuff and you're just into the old stuff."

"I've never really felt passion with you. Well maybe a little. But I've never felt anything so deep and intense like I did with my ex."

"The sex is great, but I just don't love you."

"It's not like if we tried for the rest of our lives, you would get to be better in bed." (Ed note: WTF?)

“Ever since we started dating, I just don’t have the time to do the things that are important to me. I love you, but I want to spend more time golfing and painting.”

"I'm going to ask you nicely....LOOSE MY PHONE NUMBER!"

"It just occurred to me that I can't keep doing this; what we're doing is wrong in so many ways."

"You're my best friend and I love you, but you need to be independent of me."

"I think we have three choices: 1) stay together, 2) take a break, or 3) break up entirely, and I want 2 or 3."

"I suppose I love you, but I'm not "in love" with you. I could never love you like I loved my ex-wife."

"Where do we go from here? We've done everything already."

"It's pointless for us to be together because I'm going away in 11 months for university."

"I just can't. I can't take the risk because I really don't think I like you anymore."

"I love my mother more than I love you. Get your stuff and get out."

"I'm just not ready to date anyone right now. I still really really like you."

"I still care about you, but I gotta screw my own head on straight and figure out who I am by myself, and then settle down."

"This just isn't for me. Nothing personal. I want to be able to tell people I'm single."

"I just want to be a typical teenage guy."

"Nothing has changed between us. None of the intimacy that we have has been lost. I just want to explore my feelings for someone else, that's all."

"I wish I had just stayed your friend. "

"You mean more to me than life itself - but I'm suicidal - so F**K off!"

"I can't see myself with you when I am eighty."

"I want be able to see other women without hurting you."

"I couldn't ask you to trust me again after the way I've behaved, it wouldn't be fair."

"I've found someone else. I'm so sorry. Shall we go tell the kids?"

"I'm sorry. I can't. Don't hate me"

"We don't see each other that much anymore, and I'm content with the way things are right now."

"You've done nothing wrong. It's me...I've just lost interest. Take care of yourself."




These lines have been submitted for the purpose of the break-up lines book. Please ask permission to reprint them. Many of the lines have been taken down to put in a book - but please send in your line to lines @ soyouvebeendumped - if you've got one to include.