Beware! Don't start a relationship if the person you're dating has been broken up with like this before.

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If you think there's no good way to break up with someone, you're right, but there are some that are truly awful. The way someone breaks up with their previous partner is a very clear warning about how they'll treat you in a relationship.

The classic example? In 2009, hockey player Jarret Stoll dumped his fiancée Rachel Hunter (a famous model) over an email. Yes, an email. But what's worse? That regular people do even cooler things every day.

So, if someone proudly tells you that they've split up in one of the following ways, run away. Here's why:

1. Changed the status on social networks... and that's it

In 2025, it's no wonder someone would express a breakup with a bio that reads "single" on Instagram. But you know what this action is? Not only low, but also inappropriate and completely insensitive.

If you haven't had the courage to say a single word about the breakup, but have made it official this way, you are the biggest red flag ever.

2. Shared it publicly so he/she wouldn't have the opportunity to create drama

There's an old myth: if you break up with someone at a bar or in the park, there won't be any emotional outbursts. No. Most of the time, you end up looking like a coward and the other person can't contain themselves. And the end? Awkward silence while waiting for the bill.

The only exception: if someone doesn't feel safe during the breakup, then yes, public space is justified. But if you're just doing it for "convenience," don't be surprised if you end up getting attacked online.

3. Shared it with a note (or message)

If a person leaves you via text, email, or, even worse, a sticky note (like in "Sex and the City"), they have withdrawn from any emotional responsibility. Not only have they left you, they have also denied you the right to respond.

Breakups are not one-way communication. If the person can't handle you emotionally, they're not ready for a relationship.

4. Through another person oO

If someone has asked their cousin, friend, building guard, or colleague to tell their partner that they've broken up, don't even agree to go out for coffee with them.

We are not in sixth grade. Any kind of separation through mediation is the utmost immaturity and a clear signal that this person does not know how to face reality.

5. It just disappeared (ghosting)

There's no need to explain. If someone has disappeared just to avoid having an awkward conversation, then they don't deserve any messages, no confrontations, nothing.

If someone can disappear once, they will do it again. Don't let them disappear from you after they've taken everything from you.

6. He made her life so miserable that he forced her to leave him.

Some people are so incapable of breaking up that they decide to sabotage the relationship. They start insulting you, betraying you, pushing you to the limits of your patience until you say "enough."

Bad news: the fact that these people didn't break up with their partners first doesn't make them innocent. On the contrary, they're even worse. They're people who knowingly cause pain just to save face.

^{Source: Your Tango}