Breakups and Suicide

A guy friend once asked me if it was pointless to continue on in a relationship if one has lost all feelings for the other. Well, the answer is obviously a big fat NO.

But behind every obvious question is a not-so-obvious reason. His girl had attempted suicide. Ah, the typical breakup story.

Well, in this case the girl was actually receiving no support from her family and friends. She is undergoing all pressures of being an independent college freshman, and all she has was her guy to depend on. As she said,

I would die without him.

I might seem insensitive, but this was the advice I gave him:

The best thing to do would be to leave her. It's bad enough that she lives her life only through you. Don't make things worse. She'd know eventually that you don't love her anymore.

Well, the girl needs to live her life on her own. She needs to learn that the world would never revolve around her guy, and that there are more to this world than an immature relationship. Her attempt to commit suicide is fact alone that the relationship has taught her badly.

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