
This post contains mentions of abuse and may be triggering for some readers.
I broke up with my first love via email.
I have to admit, it wasn’t my first choice for breaking up with someone. I believe that if you have spent a significant amount of time with someone romantically, you owe it to them to finish things in person (or via video chat, if you find yourself on the other side of the planet).
Which I tried to do. Three times.
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Over three separate days, I hopped on Skype with my first love, telling him I was officially ending things.
It was the last straw for me — I had been studying in South Korea for approximately three weeks, and in that time he had spent the first week in contact, the second high as a kite and living with one of his female coworkers (and me telling him I obviously wasn’t comfortable with that, and that he should go back to his own home), and the third week receiving concerned messages from his family because they didn’t know where he was.
SPOILER ALERT: He was still living with that female coworker at her apartment — the same one he told me had communicated that she ‘wanted to sleep with him’ right before I headed to South Korea.