Learn the Top 10 English Break-Up Lines - English Vocabulary

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Hi, everybody! Welcome back to Top Words! My name is Alisha, and today we're going
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to be talking about 10 Break Up Lines. These are lines that you can use when
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you want to end a romantic relationship.
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Let's go!
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I need my space.
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So if you feel the other person is maybe just always with you,
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always looking for time, or just bothering you,
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whatever, it doesn't matter. You don't want to spend time with that person
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anymore, you can say I need my space.
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"Oh do you want to go to the movies with me this weekend? It was so much fun to
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see you yesterday, and we can do something tomorrow, and then we can go to
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the movies together too, don't you think it will be great?"
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"Actually, I need my space."
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I need to focus on my career.
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So maybe you're really really busy with work, or you're just looking for an
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excuse to break up with the person. To break up with someone you can say,I'm
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really sorry, but right now I need to focus on my career.
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I think we need a break.
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This is after you've been seeing someone for some time,
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and you decide that maybe they're not the right person for you.
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You can say, I think we need a break. Be careful though, this phrase sounds like
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there's a chance you may get back together in the future. If you don't feel
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that there's a chance you will be continuing to see this person, maybe
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choose a different line to break up with them.
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I think we're moving too fast.
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This is an expression you might use towards the
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beginning of a relationship, maybe for example, you meet someone and then you
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start dating them, and then a month later they're, like, let's move in
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together! And then three months later it's like, oh let's get married, or
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whatever. The pace of the relationship seems too fast, you can say "I think we're
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moving too fast." So if you say this phrase maybe it doesn't mean that you
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want to break up, but just this pace is too fast for me, let's slow down.
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I'm just not ready for this kind of relationship.
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This could have many different meanings,
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maybe the relationship is very serious and you're not looking for a serious relationship.
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You can say "I'm not ready for this kind of relationship", saying I'm not ready
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sounds like it's me, it's my problem.
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I'm not ready for this kind of relationship.
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It's not you, it's me.
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There's no problem with you, rather I have a problem.
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Maybe they're just struggling with some things that they're not...
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they don't want to bring into a relationship, or maybe they're just
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trying to be polite, maybe it is you, maybe it is you,
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but the other person is trying to be kind, so you can say "it's not you it's me".
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Let's just be friends.
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You've been in a relationship with someone for a while and you decide
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maybe it's better if we don't date each other, but i still like this person so
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let's just be friends.
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We need to talk.
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Oh no! We need to talk. The dreaded "we need to talk".
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If someone says we need to talk in that tone,
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we need to talk, or if you get like a text message that is we need to talk,
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it's never "we need to talk, I want to get a puppy".
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It's never a happy thing! If you see, if you hear "we need to talk"
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it's oh no something is bad at my relationship and i'm about to hear about it.
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dun dun dun
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and so you can follow we need to talk with a an actual issue that you need to
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discuss about your relationship, or it can mean the end of the relationship. You
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want to talk about ending the relationship.
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We should start seeing other people.
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The next break up line is we should start seeing other people.
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Ouch! It means i don't want to see you anymore. Ah! One point about this, when we are
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in a relationship with someone, there are a couple of different verbs that we use.
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we use the verb seeing, to see someone; and to date, to go out with, those are a few.
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So in this expression, we see "we should start seeing other people" so it doesn't
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mean just like stand across the room
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I see another person, I see you! Hi!
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No, it means date, it means be in a relationship with. We use the verb "to see"
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for that, one of the things that is sad about this phrase is that if someone
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uses the phrase "we should start seeing other people"
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there's a good chance that person is already seeing someone else.
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Ouch! Ouch!
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You deserve better.
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The next phrase is "you deserve better". Oh! So if someone says to you,
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you deserve better, like, I think we should end the relationship, you deserve
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better, it means that the person feels they are not good enough, they're not
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enough for you.
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And so they think you should find someone better than the person saying
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the phrase. Again this could be a sincere expression or it could just be a very
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polite and kind way to end a relationship with someone.
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That's the end! Those are 10 phrases that you can use to break up or to discuss a serious matter
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in a relationship.
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I hope that you don't need to use these words, and i hope that you don't have to
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hear these words, but in case you do
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those are some of the things that the other person might be trying to
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communicate. So thank you very much for watching this episode of Top Words.
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Please please please be sure to subscribe,
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and we will see you again next time for more fun stuff. Bye!
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So depressing! So depressing! We should start seeing other people. If I
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say in a happy voice and doesn't seem so sad.
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