Posted by Sophie Westrope on June 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment
WHEN a relationship falls apart its difficult to carry out the postmortem to decipher what went wrong in the end. And while the clichéd breakup line of ’it’s not you, it’s me’ has been dragged out more often than Michael Buble at Christmas, sometimes in retrospect it’s possibly the most rational thing spoken throughout the entirety of the romance. Because, believe it or not, more often than not, a couple simply aren’t the right fit but ‘it’s not you, it’s us. We suck together’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it…
Past flings can be haunting, causing us to spend endless hours deliberating over every detail of its pleasures and pitfalls, when it could simply be a result of a mismatched pairing — simply put: we were trying to put a square peg in a round hole (pun uninten– oh, who am I kidding?) And there’s nothing wrong with trying something on and returning it at a later date, that’s what returns policies were created for.
So if your 6 ft 4 item didn’t happen to suit you very much, the relationship shop can take it back and it won’t affect your statutory rights at all in the process. Don’t be so hard on yourself, shopper. You’re allowed to make as many purchases as you wish. There’s no limited time period and you won’t be charged interest because this is your life and you’re in it to fail. And then to fail better next time. So if things went tits up just dust yourself off, like Aaliyah once sang, and try again.
Get back on that horse and ride it off into the sunset. Try not to opt instead for never returning to the stable and giving up riding altogether but if you do, also remember that there’s nothing wrong with being by yourself. You might be alone but you’re not lonely and all that bollocks. (Quick, somebody stop me before I start to write the script for a new Katherine Heigl chick-flick!)
In short: you’re not as much of a knob for ending it as you think you are. It didn’t work because it just didn’t work. You tried, sugar and we all love a trier.
