If you wound up here because you were searching for break up lines, you’re in for a real treat. Here are just a few of the break-up lines that have been sent in to SYBD over more than ten years. The more recent always get added to the top.
Having received thousands of lines over the years, 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 (at) soyouvebeendumped (dot com). Please don’t steal them for your website, your iPhone app or anything else. If you’d like permission to quote them – then please ask. Stealing is uncool. You know who you are.
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NEW in 2011! “I just can’t take the bad sex anymore”.
NEW in 2011 ! “You’re perfect in every way, just not for me.”
NEW in 2011 ! “I get so emotional when you’re not around…. That emotion is called happiness.”
“Oh, sorry but l am going to my brother’s wedding and you not invited….”
“Oh, l am going to my brother’s wedding and you not invited….”
“It’s not you. You’re fine, lovely in fact, and much smarter than me. It’s just I want to pursue younger women.”
“Maybe this break up will be good for you, since you’ve never really experienced pain before.”
“I enjoy your company, fancy you like crazy, and love having sex with you, but I don’t love you and I never will.”
“The problem with our relationship is, we’re in a relationship.”
“Just the fact that you had to sit me down and talk about our communication problems means that were not going to work out and we should end our relationship.”
“I can’t believe you won’t let me go to a strip club in Vegas. This shows you really don’t care about me.”
“Really, our time together has just become more effort than you’re worth.”
“You care too much about celebrities.”
“I wish I could say you were the most special person in the world, but you’re not.”
“I don’t want to have to go on holiday to see my girlfriend. It’s just not fun anymore.”
“You’re not Mr. Right – just Mr. Right Now.”
“Before you were still a mystery and now you need to be history.”
“I’m just not feeling ‘it’ so I want a divorce.”
“If only I were in love with just one girl, not two.”
“I love you but I’m not in love with you so I guess I’m more of a lesbian than we thought.”
“Hmmm, I am not sure that I want to do this anymore…”
“You have your own life. You have a job. You can’t sleep with me in my bed every night. I really don’t even like her but she lets me drink.”
“I want to have fun and I’m not ready to carry a burden through my youth.”
“You have an irrational (emotional) intensive feeling for me which frightens me.”
“I just can’t come up tonight. This whole thing is just making me ill.”
“I have these spirit guides and as I drove home today they were telling me very strongly that we live too far apart and it’s never going to work.”
“Ideally, I would like to write my book, and once I finish I’ll give you an answer as to whether we will be together or not.”
“You don’t engage me anymore”.
“I bought my baby’s mama an engagement ring for Valentine’s Day. Since this is the last time we’ll be together, I hope you want to get real freaky.”
“Right now, just sleeping with you every couple of weeks as I pass through on my way somewhere else, is enough for me…”
“I know we’ve been together for a year, and I do love you, but your a damn Virgo and I’m a Scorpio, so we both know that Aries is much better for me.”
“I’ve put three thousand miles on my car since I met you!”
“I need to see other women to prove to myself that my love for you is genuine.”
“She said that she was better for me than you, so I had no choice but to defend our love and prove her wrong…You should be thanking me for this.”
“I’ll always remember last night, but I think we can forget about tomorrow.”
“I just don’t think we’re ‘suitable’ suitable”.
“I need to tell you that someone from my past has come back into my life. I knew her years ago but there were so many things that interfered with her and I having a relationship that could not be overcome, but that has passed and now she and I are making another attempt.”
“You’re Muslim, and I’m Hindu, this is never going to work, I’m sorry.”
“I’m making a changes in my life that don’t include you. I’m sorry. I love you but I’m going through a quarter life crisis right now. You know I’m not going to live much longer because all prodigies die young.”
“Isn’t six and a half years long enough?”
“You know how Fromm talks about love being an active process? Well, I’m afraid love didn’t even grow. I’m looking for a Soul mate and you’re not her.”
“I could have easily have married you….maybe if we’re still single in five years…”
“It just fizzled out, I am sorry. We are still buds, just not like before, I can’t do it.”
“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 was asked to make a choice. If I had not been asked, I may have chosen differently”.
“It’s been over a while now, and last weekend I ‘moved-on’.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I just can’t handle the distance…I’m so sorry.”
“This isn’t easy and neither are you…I’m breaking up with you.”
“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”.
“Maybe I just need to date someone who will let me look at porn.”
“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 you, but I’m 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 accordion, 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 responsibility 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 crisis’s.”
“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?”
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 feel free to add yours below or send it in to lines @ soyouvebeendumped (dot com) – if you’ve got one to include.
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“I’ve pulled away because it’s torture that we can’t be together for another month and I just can’t take it anymore. That’s why I’ve stopped contacting you.”
That’s a bit half-arsed isn’t it? It probably makes sense to him / her but doesn’t really make sense to me!
Hope you’re ok x
Mine said (2 days after proposing) “I just don’t have time for you.”
a cold night…her in my arms …in the park on a bench staring at the stars….she then looks at me with her beautiful sunflower eyes right at me in to my eyes……Its over.
Short and sweet…OK, not too sweet, but definitely short, eh? Hope you’re ok Ren. x
I don’t have TIME for you? That doesn’t make sense…two days after proposing? I mean what could change in 2 days? Hope you’re doing ok hon. x
Wanna see a magic trick? *POOF* You’re single.
“She doesn’t like you and doesn’t want you around the kids. What am I supposed to do?”
Well it’s annoying now hon but frankly that’s a hoot. I can’t just PICTURE that one. I Tweeted it it was so good
Hope you’re ok x
Lol. Oh yeah. Now last night’s was classic.
“This seems to be a one-way relationship, and I’m the only one pulling my weight. Before we can keep going, I need to make sure you do it by yourself first.”
Priceless. That doesn’t really even make sense. Or it does to him I guess
Thanks for sharing!
Me to Him: You used to be the most honest person I know, now you plan to move cities and don’t tell me. I don’t know you anymore. We are done.
Hi me venting a bit on the internet but just thought I’d share with you some juicy ones which were said to me recently, not all strictly the break up line/s as some were said after breakup or some leading up to it but still fall under same area of bullshit to say to someone to add salt into an already painful injury of being rejected and dumped!
“Maybe we’re not compatible”
“I think you feel more than I do and I don’t want to hurt you”
Me telling her how I feel and touching her cheek, and her replying: “There’s that feeling again I’m all confused, your not making this easy for me”
“Someone has come back into my life and there is a chance of romance”
“Maybe it’s because I have allot of options”
“We should be free to meet someone special”
“It would be a waste to stay together and miss that special someone”
“I was never certain of my feelings from the start”
“My feelings weren’t at a level I like them to be at when meeting someone”
“Maybe we were together in a previous life and this time I’m not making the same mistakes”
And all this from the same woman! if only we could choose who we fall for.
This was a cracker which I’ve shared on our FB page as the Break Up Line of the Day: “It would be a waste to stay together and miss that special someone”.[ #dumpedlinesthatmakenosense!]
Or this is pretty crackin’– “Maybe we were together in a previous life and this time I’m not making the same mistakes”
Me to him: we’re not meant to be. .. I am not ur woman and ur not my guy. Sorry but We’re done.
Well I guess that’s honest and to the point!